[Argorak]

I've heard someone once say "if Rust is a criticism of C++, it comes from a position of respect" and that was definitely true in the early days of the programming language.

Interestingly though, I take the stance that Rust is much closer to C than C++.

[Hemospectrum]

I like to put it this way: C++ was supposed to be a "better C," and Rust is a better "better C" than C++.