Beyond memory safety, Rust's other advantages over C++ are simply that it has a far better type system (by nature of ADTs), cleaner and more consistent syntax,

Beyond memory safety, Rust's other advantages over C++ are simply that it has a far better type system (by nature of ADTs), cleaner and more consistent syntax, cleaner tooling overall, and a far better module/modularity story. That, and the borrowing/safety aspects of Rust also shake out into threading/concurrency, where the compiler does a pretty good job of forcing you to adopt better practices in regards to state sharing, locking, concurrency. Cargo, though... I am coming around to thinking isn't great -- workspace support remains half-assed, especially... and crates.io is amateur-hour for reasons many people have pointed out elsewhere on this post. I have been tempted to switch my personal projects to bazel, with 3rd-party deps checked in/submoduled.