I’ve been mostly working in C# for the past few years (and most of my life), and the only C++ experience I have is from college, so it’s getting some using to. And that’s what I was getting at - thanks to college, where I was forced to really learn (or at least, understand and be able to use) a wide range of drastically different languages, from Lisp through Bash, Pharo, Prolog, to Java and C#, that when I have to write something in a language I don’t know, it’s usually similar to at least one of them and I always could figure it out intuitively.

With Rust, even though it has an amazing compiler, I’m struggling - probably because of the borrowing and overly careful error handling being concepts I’ve never had to deal with to get a MVP code working. Sure, that probably means that the code wasn’t error-proof, which is exactly what Rust forces you to do and which is amazing, but it makes it a lot harder to just write a single script without prior knowledge when you have to.

I hope they are teaching Rust at universities now, we definitely didn’t have it 8 years ago, which is a shame.