Well yeah but Rust isn't a boring technology and C++ has its own reasons for being difficult. The goto examples of boring are C (and Objective-C), Java, Perl 5,

Well yeah but Rust isn't a boring technology and C++ has its own reasons for being difficult. The goto examples of boring are C (and Objective-C), Java, Perl 5, PHP, Vanilla JS (the browser itself is remarkably stable), Rails, Django. Just a who's who of ecosystems people don't want to program in. Perl code doesn't work today just as well as it didn't work 20 years ago.