[kibwen]

Rust isn't a complex language by the standards of languages like C++. Complexity arises by features that work together in surprising ways. Rust has a medium-large amount of features (similar to Python (though obviously with a more imposing learning curve than Python)), but those features tend to compose very well, which keeps complexity from ballooning.

[UncleMeat]

It is true that Rust is competing most directly with C++, but "less complex than C++" might be a true statement about every single language in existence that has more than a dozen professional users.

[pjmlp]

Kind of, Python, C#, Java have enough stuff on language + standard library to compete with C++.

A pub quizz with them would be just as fun.

[UncleMeat]

I personally think those are all nowhere close. There are like ten different ways to initialize values in C++ and they all have slight differences.

[pjmlp]

Believe me, C# 10, Java 17 and Python 3.7, including standard library and runtimes across 25 - 30 years, have plenty of question material.