> Moving from C++ to Rust for a computer programmer with many years of experience in C++ must be a frustrating and humbling experience My experience was the ex

> Moving from C++ to Rust for a computer programmer with many years of experience in C++ must be a frustrating and humbling experience My experience was the exact opposite. To write correct and safe C++ code you need to be tracking things like lifetimes and ownerships anyway (even in modern C++). Rust allows you offload all of that cognitive overhead to the compiler, which greatly simplifies things. There was a short period of time needed to get used to the borrow checker, but coming from C++ I understood why it was complaining about these things so the errors didn't come across as opaque or confusing.