Comment by tialaramex

Today all of the code I'm not paid to write is in Rust. I spent many happy years previously getting paid to write C (I have also been paid to write Java, PHP, Go and C#, and I have written probably a dozen more languages for one reason or another over the years but never as specifically a thing people were paying me to do)

I always thought C++ was a terrible idea, from way before C++ 98, I own Stroustrup's terrible book about his language, which I picked up at the same time as the revised K&R and it did nothing to change that belief, nor have subsequent standards.

However, I do have some sympathy for this sentiment about Rust being a better C++. Even though Rust and C++ have an entirely different approach to many important problems the syntax often looks similar and I think Zig manages to be less intimidating than Rust for that reason if you don't want that complexity.

Personally I had no interest in C++† and I have no serious interest in Zig.

† Ironically I ended up caring a lot more about C++ after I learned Rust, and most specifically when understanding how Rust's HashMap type works, but I didn't end up liking C++ I just ended up much better informed about it.