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> In just another few years, if Rust does not fizzle, you will feel the same way about code in Rust as it evolves and improves.

I've written fairly extensive amounts of code in C, C++, Rust, Python, Java, OCaml, Haskell, Clojure, Common Lisp, Scheme, and probably some others that aren't coming to mind right now. All of these languages except Rust have been around for decades (and I guess Clojure is about a decade and a half). My opinion of these languages vary. They all have their warts. Some of these languages I don't particularly like. Some of them are complicated, some are fairly simple.

But C++ is the only one where I feel like the basic features of the language are actively working against me. It's the only one where I feel like such a huge portion of language design decisions were utterly baffling and wrong.

IME some members of the C++ community can be fairly insular. They just can't see how things are done outside their world. You expect me to believe that I'll eventually feel the same way about Rust as I do about C++, but I know that's unlikely to be true because C++ is the only language that I feel this way about.



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