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The arrow operator is far better than what you currently have to deal with in unsafe rust when trying to access a pointer member of a pointer to a struct. Rust’s way is more verbose and less clear.

I don’t really care for your examples of defaults being abused in C++, because all of rust’s workarounds like builder pattern and the default trait have the same potential to be misused while also impeding performance. They also suck for ergonomics, see bevy and polars. Rust already has a huge function colouring problem with async and mut and the lack of defaults only makes it worse.

Similarly for generics. Templates are simply better. Don’t use the power if you’re scared if it, that’s the great thing about freedom, you won’t be forced to. C++ can always do something the Rust way, nullifying everything you’ve said, but the other way around is not true. Rust sacrifices the complex case to make the simple case a little simpler and just leans on macros to do everything else. “Rust just allows coherent things” is a typical example of the bullshit rust programmers spew when they don’t have an actual response but want to say something anyways because it’s completely wrong. Plenty of useful template functionality is impossible to replicate in rust. For example:

https://youtu.be/gOdcNko2xc8