[holy_city]

Coming from a systems/DSP background, Rust feels at times "higher level" than C/C++ (especially w.r.t. the crates ecosystem, although I suspect a large part of that is its youth and general instability), but mostly akin to writing C-with-classes-style C++ with static analysis baked into your build script.

The "high level" stuff baked into Rust makes it great for "low level" tasks, notably imo:

- Tests (and micro benchmarks, with nightly) alongside code, without dependencies or build system hackery.

- An incredibly powerful macro system, supplanting a lot of the templated code generation I've done in C++ which is a nightmare. Not that proc macros are perfect (yet) but at least they're legible.

- If you've ever tried to do away with dynamic dispatch via templates in place of inheritance, then Rust's generics with trait bounds are an absolute godsend

- A gosh darn dependency solution (now with custom repositories on stable!) makes dependency hell is less hellish