Arguably, Rust is “just” a C++ subset with RAII made into a compile-time guaranteed primitive, and the only possible way to manage objects. Add to it that it i

Arguably, Rust is “just” a C++ subset with RAII made into a compile-time guaranteed primitive, and the only possible way to manage objects. Add to it that it is a new language that had the hindsight of C++’s warts, and no backwards compatibility on C and its own existing syntax, it would be very surprising to see Rust as more complex.