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It depends on which direction you want to go.

Rust is probably a better bet for web-related things. There is not much C++ there, and Rust seems to get some popularity. After all, Rust was originally made for Firefox.

For more industrial applications, or game dev, C++ is likely the way to go. Where I work, we do a lot of industrial applications and we have a lot of C++ projects, including new ones. Rust is not even on the radar. [Edit: C++ here is mostly C++11 now, with some C++98 and not much C++14 and later, I expect that we will get to C++17 soon enough but C++20 probably has a long way to go]

Forget about the criticism/hate of C++ and hype of Rust, it has little to do with practical applications.