Quite honestly, doesn't seem like Rust is a win here over C++. In fact, C++ has fewer sigils that make it somewhat easier to read sort of striking the balance b

Quite honestly, doesn't seem like Rust is a win here over C++. In fact, C++ has fewer sigils that make it somewhat easier to read sort of striking the balance between being simple enough (C-like) and abstractions (templates). Readability wise, I would have preferred Julia as that would have been the cleanest explanation of the code through the different topics at sufficient level of detail. Alas, it seems to have stalled somewhat (relatively speaking). It also doesn't help that every Rust article has Rust advocates jumping on you with "WAHT ABOUT SAFETY" which is off-putting since not every program needs to deal with all the complexity of the Rust memory/lifetime model to enable safety (simple bounds checking etc. might be sufficient).