I hear this often, and I get it, it's sort of true. And it's also false. While the entirety of C++ is impossible to learn, it took me SIGNIFICANTLY less effort

I hear this often, and I get it, it's sort of true. And it's also false. While the entirety of C++ is impossible to learn, it took me SIGNIFICANTLY less effort to get a grasp of C++ to the point where I could do everything I needed to do with it. Sure, we can call that a dialect, but it's enough. Rust is an ongoing effort, because you need a lot more of the language as a whole to click before you get to the point where the compiler stops slapping you about elementary things. Now, if I was designing an application where memory safety and security was very important, I'd probably try and step up that rust knowledge. But in my field (data science) that's just not a big concern and I can code up a C++ solution MUCH faster than I ever could in Rust.