[spease]

Rust is less complicated than C++, but it is more complicated than Go. However I’m a big proponent of minimizing complexity wherever possible - language overhead should not become an obstacle to programmer time.

The nice thing about Rust is that it allows you to compartmentalize complexity very nicely by creating rules the compiler will enforce, whereas with C++ the programmer is also burdened with knowing them.

I’m not sure if I’d say that it’s more complicated than Python, since Python’s flexibility can in practice lead to creative but very hard-to-follow code.

[blub]

I recently realized that trying to order C++ and Rust precisely on a complexity scale is rather pointless and misleading, since it's obvious that they are in the same class of trickiness, but for different reasons.

If a significant number of the developers that come into contact with a language think it's hard, then... it's very likely hard.

[kibwen]

Rust is harder than many languages, but just because something is hard doesn't mean that it's complicated. I find that the strictness of the compiler ends up all-but-forcing code to end up rather simple.