I've written no code professionally in Rust, but a fair amount of personal project code. I've written C++ both professionally and as a hobby. At least for hobby

I've written no code professionally in Rust, but a fair amount of personal project code. I've written C++ both professionally and as a hobby. At least for hobby use, comparing the two, Rust is wonderful. - It's easy to set up cross compilation. - Cargo makes dependencies easy. - Building is almost always just `cargo build` except for very exceptional projects, same with `cargo test`. - `cargo fmt` makes formatting easy and built in. - Clippy gives actually useful lints and can automate most refactorings. - Rust-analyzer is fast to index decently large projects, works with almost all language features (even complex ones like proc macros), and has some real time-saver automation built in. Working with the borrow checker can feel like a pain, but in many cases, feels like a fun puzzle (writing hobby code, I'm not under time pressure, so it's 'solve a puzzle' and not 'oh fuck deadline coming up'). But really, the tooling of the language is where it shines.