Rust is far more similar to C++ than C - RAII, generics, etc are language features that aren't in C, never will be in C, and don't belong in C. Rust fits into

Rust is far more similar to C++ than C - RAII, generics, etc are language features that aren't in C, never will be in C, and don't belong in C. Rust fits into a lot of C and C++ use cases, saying it's the successor of one or the other doesn't seem all that coherent.