> Great, if you are right everyone is going to be using Rust eventually.

Every task does not need speed and safety. Therefore, "everyone" doesn't need Rust.

But I could easily see a future where C++ is relegated to legacy language status. It has already had decades of garbage-collected languages chipping away at most of its general-purpose uses, but Rust seems capable and in a position to take away most of its remaining niches.

It's kind of why the old C++ programmer that I am decided to learn Rust in the first place - seemed like a good idea at the time to skate where the puck is heading.