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by tele_ski 1804 days ago
I'm not the parent poster but I think this question might be more interesting in 10 years when rust possibly has a larger industry foothold? I agree and I am actively trying to move my career from C++ towards Rust but its slow and Rust isn't particularly heavily used outside of crypto, which is something I am not interested in, from looking at openings for Rust over the past year. I do think it is great that larger companies like FB/Microsoft are now starting to invest in the language though.

My biggest issue with C++ is that although it does seem to be adding lots of good quality of life changes with the recent standards for developers it has inherit flaws that without breaking backwards compatibility it can never be as safe as Rust. And I think C++ is probably right to not break backwards compatibility, it has too large of a user base that will most likely splinter, it reminds me of the python 2/3 problems.