Rust is like a modernized, more well-furnished (and more ergonomic and secure) C. That may sound like C++, but C++ is also the most complicated programming lang

Rust is like a modernized, more well-furnished (and more ergonomic and secure) C. That may sound like C++, but C++ is also the most complicated programming language in existence. What makes it worse is that complication doesn't even exist for "good" technological reasons; it only exists for inertial, industrial reasons like compatibility with C and 1980s naivete -- both because of and in spite of it, since, like the other person said, even more complexity was bolted on to try to force new lessons without breaking backwards compatibility. I used to love C++, since I thought its complexity was somehow, fundamentally necessary for a lang to be a "fancier C". Once I learned Rust and found out that was not true, I now hate C++ with a passion and can't wait until it completely displaces C++, which it should do ASAP[0]. :D THAT SAID, some people (who are much better programmers than I am), say that C++ is the most expressively versatile language around, which is at least a "good" technological reason for its enduring existence. That's one I can't relate to, though, since the people who are saying that tend to be talking about very advanced, byzantine aspects of C++ that I never got to. 0: https://i.imgur.com/tbEohzT.png https://i.imgur.com/tbEohzT.png