The advantages and disadvantages of the two may be clearer, but Rust is clearly most similar to C++ from a complexity and usage domain view. I don’t see why this is not the only discussion on ‘Rust vs’. The same arguments against C++ being compared to C are almost directly applicable to arguments comparing Rust to C, and the same goes when comparing against higher level languages. I get that Rust has its borrowing/ownership semantics and a ML inspired type system, but Rust and C++ are more readily comparable than almost any other languages in general usage.
