[yazaddaruvala]

It really depends on what you’re trying to benchmark here.

If you’re benchmarking the two compilers for lines of code, you’ve done a really good job and people shouldn’t complain about the Rust code length.

> then people would complain that the Rust code was artificially shorter.

If you’re trying to benchmark Rust development vs C++ development, then people cannot complain that the Rust code is “idiomatically shorter”.

Arguably right now your benchmark has the Rust code “artificially longer”. Which is fine if that is what you’re intentionally trying to measure.