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> But I teach students both C++ and Rust, and by far Rust is preferred. It’s never even a contest.

Why is Rust preferred though? Is it "fearless concurrency" (or whatever the old tag line was), a more modern stdlib, or is it Rust's tooling with `cargo` rather the shitty tool-scape of C++'s make/cmake/meson and vcpkg/conan and whatever else.

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As a newbie who only learned Java and JS in bootcamp, and C in EE, Rust's tooling is absolutely phenomenal.

Things just work, and that is a rare experience.

It’s a rare experience but once you’ve had it, anything less becomes unacceptable. Rust has ruined me for so many languages, my bullshit tolerance used to be much higher.

Borland languages and IDEs did that to me, that is the minimum bar.

> Why is Rust preferred though? Is it "fearless concurrency"

Yes.

> a more modern stdlib

Yes.

> is it Rust's tooling with `cargo` rather the shitty tool-scape of C++'s make/cmake/meson and vcpkg/conan and whatever else

Yes.

I don't mean to be flippant. The entire experience with Rust is just so much better than with C or C++, and that's even before you get to the actual language.

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