There’s C++ programmers and then there’s C++ programmers. The C++ programmers who have been using std::unique_ptr have absolutely the easiest time learning Rus

There’s C++ programmers and then there’s C++ programmers. The C++ programmers who have been using std::unique_ptr have absolutely the easiest time learning Rust as Rust is basically C++11 smart pointers on steroids. These C++ programmers usually have the opposite problem, there’s things you are allowed to do in Rust, that you can’t safely do in C++ without copying. Then there are C++ programmers who are still using C++98 style for whatever reason (commonly gamedev) and they don’t benefit from any similarities because their style of C++ is so old that there aren’t any similarities.