I don't really understand how Rust could be compared to C. Rust is perhaps more austere than C++, but that's like saying the neptune is smaller than jupiter. It

I don't really understand how Rust could be compared to C. Rust is perhaps more austere than C++, but that's like saying the neptune is smaller than jupiter. It's still a big language with a generous standard library. You almost never do everything yourself, by hand, which is the hallmark of the C experience. Just compare the list of methods rust has for a &str, compared to the fact C doesn't have a string type, to see the gulf of cultural difference. Obviously, C and Rust are both low-level languages (in terms of control and overhead), but there are quite a few of those.