[CodeBrad]

> C++ is becoming a real mess of features

> I am now looking forward to learning Rust

Prepare yourself. I personally think one of the major downsides to learning Rust is how quickly the language is moving.

I first started looking into Rust in ~2015, but it seems most hobby projects from that time won't even compile today.

It feels like there are non-breaking changes to the language almost weekly. I still cannot figure out if I should be using nightly rust, stable rust, or switching back and forth depending on the project.

Overall I think Rust is doing a lot of great things, but I'm not sure it is handling the "mess of features" aspect of programming languages particularly well.

[MayeulC]

Thanks for pointing this out, as well as a few other sibling posters. That makes sense, though I hope that, as Rust doesn't seem too afraid of deprecating features, it will keep the language a bit leaner in the long run, when it will have stabilized even more. Of course, that comes at a cost, if the language isn't 100% forward-compatible.