[asveikau]

> Rust has copied a lot from C++.

I think this is exactly the thing: if you come from C++ it's very obvious that they drew a lot of inspiration from there (I won't use a charged term like "copied"). But I get the impression that people who got into rust without learning C++ first are largely unaware of this. Or, even if they had worked with c++ but missed the boat on raii and smart pointers.