I've never written C++ in professional capacity, what turns me off from learning is what I've heard and read about its vast complexity, e.g. you could meet 20 e

I've never written C++ in professional capacity, what turns me off from learning is what I've heard and read about its vast complexity, e.g. you could meet 20 expert C++ developers and they'd all be using a different subset of the language. I don't want to spend more energy learning a language than I do actually solving the problem. Same reasoning turns me off from Rust, too.