Having written both my sense is that C++ will indeed be ultimately faster, but with a lot of work. You can get pretty close with Rust, with less pulling your ha

Having written both my sense is that C++ will indeed be ultimately faster, but with a lot of work. You can get pretty close with Rust, with less pulling your hair out, and much faster coding time. Whether that's worth the difference to a fully optimized C++ depends on what you're up to.