[xelamonster]

I learned C++ first and Rust only within the past couple years, and I'd never willingly choose write a project in C++ again with the option to use Rust instead. Generics can get messy and the phantom data is indeed awkward, the difference to me is that in Rust if you go wrong the compiler most often can highlight the exact issue and suggest accurately how to fix it. My experience with C++ is that the compiler errors tend towards being so incomprehensible they sometimes felt intentionally misleading. The Rust compiler enforces correctness to a degree that gives me significantly more confidence in the programs I write; C++ is a major improvement on C here but still gives you so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot that would just not compile in a Rust project.

[lenkite]

Did you write C++ after C++ 20 came out ? With concepts and a modern code base, the incomprehensible errors are a thing of the past.

[xelamonster]

I haven't actually, glad to hear it! I still see big advantages to the extra compile time safety provided by Rust, and despite the mentioned similarities I find its syntax significantly clearer to read and write. C++ templates took me forever to really wrap my head around where a similar declaration in Rust feels immediately intuitive even where I don't fully understand all the nuances.