[snovv_crash]

Rust is winning marketshare because it was built ground-up to take advantage of the massive progression of Moore's Law at compile time. Compiling programs written in Rust would have been completely infeasible 20 years ago, it would have simply been too slow.

[adrianN]

C++ doesn't compile that much faster than Rust.

[snovv_crash]

Modern C++, I agree. C++98 is a lot faster to compile though, even the same code using the same standard library calls.

[adrianN]

Having worked on a modestly sized C++98 codebase in the recent past, I don't think I agree. But of course it would need proper benchmarks.