[nickik]

As somebody who tried his hands on C++ a couple of times only I have to say that basic RAII, templates and virtual functions are not really easy. I mean maybe compared to even worse stuff in C++, but compared to almost every other language, they are still a pain.

[simias]

Well I was mostly talking from a C dev standpoint. At first I think it's easy to think of C++ as "C with classes". It just feels like syntactical sugar for stuff you'd do in C. RAII just means calling a destructor function at the end of the scope. Virtual functions are like stuffing function pointers in structs, templates are like "macros on steroid" etc... It's like C with some stuff on top.

Of course it turns out that it's a lot more complicated and powerful than that and it's probably the wrong way to look at C++ but it might take a while until you realize that you're not in Kansas anymore. Rust on the other hand forces you to become acquainted with its paradigm right away, unless you're willing to put all your code in unsafe blocks.