I think it is a C++ replacement that is _closer_ to C. It has generics, traits, RAII, etc, which are C++, not C, features but the way that Rust implements them

I think it is a C++ replacement that is _closer_ to C. It has generics, traits, RAII, etc, which are C++, not C, features but the way that Rust implements them _feels_ closer to C. I don't know if this quite makes sense but as an external observer this is my impression.