Rust competes with both GC languages (offering way superior performance) and with C++ (offering safety and modern language features). It’s a pretty strong valu

Rust competes with both GC languages (offering way superior performance) and with C++ (offering safety and modern language features). It’s a pretty strong value proposition, but it doesn’t mean there aren’t good reasons to pick a GC language if you can afford the performance hit. The list of reasons to pick C++ over Rust is very short, mostly momentum, recruitment, and legacy. For greenfield projects, the list is even shorter. The general experience is that developing software in Rust is slightly more expensive compared with, say, C#, and way, way cheaper than C++.