The C++ IDEs available up until about 10 years ago were complete garbage. C++ still doesn't even have a good package manager. All the build systems are pure cha

The C++ IDEs available up until about 10 years ago were complete garbage. C++ still doesn't even have a good package manager. All the build systems are pure chaos. The largest C++ package manager has 1500 packages. In comparison, rust's package manager and build system are way easier to use and already have 94,000 packages available to users. That's not exactly fair to C++ because entire categories of dev tools (like build systems, package managers, IDEs, debuggers, version control, static analyzers, etc.) have matured after C++ did. And let's not forget that when C++ was new, most libraries were proprietary licensed and paid for, whereas today almost all libs are open source. And those improvements (along with general size of the programming community) mean that a trendy language today is going to develop and mature a lot faster than a formerly trendy language did 30 years ago. IMO Rust in 2022 is a lot closer to java in 2005 than C++ in the 1990s.