C++ is used far more in industry and will continue to be used for a long time to come. Learning C++ will not hinder you at all and the newer C++ features make it fairly easy to use for someone coming from higher level languages.
I have only dabbled with Rust (I use C++ professionally), so I don't have a strong opinion about it. However, a lot of the positive reviews you hear about Rust are from amateurs who aren't using it in real products and a lot of the criticism you hear of C++ is from people who don't use it. Hopefully that helps you adjust some of what you hear to be a bit more grounded.
I agree that you should calibrate the excitement for a new language like rust appropriately. But I think it goes to far to say that rust advocates are amateurs. Many are professionals that have a hobby project or three in rust, and like what they see so far. Surely some of these hobby projects will grow up.
Rust isn't just a redo of C++. Rust introduces some important new concepts that I think will stand the test of time, even if rust itself fades for whatever reason.
> However, a lot of the positive reviews you hear about Rust are from amateurs who aren't using it in real products and a lot of the criticism you hear of C++ is from people who don't use it. Hopefully that helps you adjust some of what you hear to be a bit more grounded.
In Rust's case, it's usually very easy to separate the amateur reviews from production users. The latter will follow up the praise with the same set of "devils in the details" shortcomings like the compile times, community maturity and rapidly developing best practices like the error handling story, compile times, steep learning curve when bringing team members onto the project, growing complexity of the language, and compile times.
I'm working on a Rust realtime (streaming updates, not embedded) service thats going into production soon and it's a breath of fresh air after decades of C/Python/JS but man, bringing up junior devs is harder and those compile times don't help (especially with async/await).
Hmm, I've used both Rust and C++ professionally (and prefer Rust). But it's fair that most positive or negative things about programming languages are from people who haven't used them professionally.
I have only dabbled with Rust (I use C++ professionally), so I don't have a strong opinion about it. However, a lot of the positive reviews you hear about Rust are from amateurs who aren't using it in real products and a lot of the criticism you hear of C++ is from people who don't use it. Hopefully that helps you adjust some of what you hear to be a bit more grounded.