Agreed. In practice Rust feels very much like a rationalized C++ in which 30 years of cruft have been shrugged off. The core concepts have been reduced to a m

Agreed. In practice Rust feels very much like a rationalized C++ in which 30 years of cruft have been shrugged off. The core concepts have been reduced to a minimum and reinforced. The compiler error messages are wildly better. And the tooling is helpful and starts with opinionated defaults. Which all leads to the knock-on effect of the library ecosystem feeling much more modular, interoperable, and useful.