All new languages are extremely important innovations until they age a bit and get severe warts. Rust is already getting them. See: https://theta.eu.org/2021/03

All new languages are extremely important innovations until they age a bit and get severe warts. Rust is already getting them. See: https://theta.eu.org/2021/03/08/async-rust-2.html https://theta.eu.org/2021/03/08/async-rust-2.html Rust is already getting foot-guns like C++ did. Modern C++ (>C++17) with RAII and neat libraries is already an elegant, high performance and high-productivity language with good IDE/editor support. And its not like C++ is standing still. You have standardised concepts, modules and co-routines out this year. Modules will fix several of C++'s shortcomings wrt build tooling and setup. I am personally looking forward to C++ 20 co-routine support in all the major compilers - will enable one to develop graceful-async, portable and stable libraries without all that Rust churn needing re-writes all the time. Competition is good, but its best to take the Rust blinkers off a bit.