As personal anecdata, this checks out. 10 years C++, mostly C++11 once it started to exist and be available. After a few years of Rust on the side, I was x2 t

As personal anecdata, this checks out. 10 years C++, mostly C++11 once it started to exist and be available. After a few years of Rust on the side, I was x2 to x3 more productive in Rust than in C++. I regularly think that the way I express code in Rust would be very tedious to do in C++. The ingredients of the magic recipe are: - Proper sum types (Rust's enum) - Exhaustive pattern matching, destructuring, the initialization syntax - The expression-orientedness Other things that make working with Rust comparatively a joy: - 99.9% of the time, no need to hunt for UB during reviews - quality and "standard-ness" of the tooling: rustfmt, rustdoc, clippy, cargo