Again, these are all your preferences/opinions which you are stating as some sort of acknowledged truth; which is most definitely not the case. While there are many good points about Rust it is quite over-hyped with evangelical zeal which is why a lot of software engineers are turned off of it. Graydon Hoare himself has said he took the good ideas from old languages and put them together. That in itself is obviously not a bad thing (imo, the industry killed research in programming languages/OS from the mid-nineties when Java was marketed up the wazoo by Sun throwing ungodly amounts of money at it) but the "saviour complex" being pushed is a strict no-no with experienced C/C++ developers.