Personally, I became interested in Rust through early writing about Servo, a project driven by people who were frustrated by writing a lot of C++ out of necessi

Personally, I became interested in Rust through early writing about Servo, a project driven by people who were frustrated by writing a lot of C++ out of necessity (in the Firefox codebase), which reminds me of what you're looking for here. Maybe you can dig up some of that writing, though it may be pretty out of date now.