> If C++ were to be invented today, it would look a lot more like Rust. I'm not sure about this, because the world without C++ would have been quite different

> If C++ were to be invented today, it would look a lot more like Rust. I'm not sure about this, because the world without C++ would have been quite different from today. The main complication comes from the fact that C++ was considered a much higher-level language than today, so its absence would have made other alternatives evolve differently.