I suspect it's pretty hard to make the case that the average Rust program is harder to write than the equivalent C program. I suspect it is quite the opposite.

I suspect it's pretty hard to make the case that the average Rust program is harder to write than the equivalent C program. I suspect it is quite the opposite. The language provides so many tools that didn't exist in the age of C -- high level concepts like Iterators, destructuring match statements, deriving debug printing for free, etc. But both of our opinions are just opinions.