I really like Rust. I like C, and C++ too. I find a lot of C++ and C detractors are nit-picking and over-promising the-new-shiny-thing, or are probably not great engineers to begin with and are blaming the tool. In this instance, I'm leaning towards the latter.
Although Rust is an improvement in many ways, I actually think it is becoming more C++ like with every release. I think it has a good chance of over-taking C++'s complexity, even if it has a much better user story around build & package/module/library management.
Although Rust is an improvement in many ways, I actually think it is becoming more C++ like with every release. I think it has a good chance of over-taking C++'s complexity, even if it has a much better user story around build & package/module/library management.