[pietromenna]

I would choose Rust. Today it might be that the market has more jobs on C++ and there are more codebases.

In the future, those codebases will only be the legacy ones and you will end up doing more maintenance with C++.

With Rust your investment of today will pay off in a few years.

Deciding what to learn today is an investment decision and you should look into what you think the future will look like. To me it looks Rusty. :-)

[sgt]

I think a valid concern might be - in 5 or 10 years, C++ still remains, just like Java and other "boring" languages. However, Rust might have been replaced by the next "Rust". That environment is still somewhat in flux.

[pietromenna]

I agree with you, it might turn out that C++ outlives Rust. I am seeing more codebases being created from scratch in Rust nowadays. We are just making bets on the opposite side. I guess we both agree that the deciding factor should be what you think the future will look like in 5+ years. Nobody knows what will happen in 5 years, then it is a bet or an investment decision you make.

[jcelerier]

I'm sure exactly the same comment can be found on Slashdot in 1997 with "Java" instead of "Rust"