There is definitely a hump to get over (maybe you are never fully as "productive" as languages that just let you shoot yourself in the foot, I say as a full-tim

There is definitely a hump to get over (maybe you are never fully as "productive" as languages that just let you shoot yourself in the foot, I say as a full-time Go developer for a few years now). Simple, straightforward code is often harder to write. Don't even get me started on stuff that uses async. But IMO it's very worth it. What do you get out of wrestling with the unholy, fractured C/C++ ecosystem? The privilege of being able to _use other people's code_. You get that without much hassle in Rust.