website/content/blog/Rust_CPP_comp.md

title	description	date	draft
Comparing Rust and C++	A post on how I view rust and C++ in relation to each other and my thoughts on them	2024-04-11	true

What this is not

This is not me dunking in C++ because of memory safety (mostly). It also isn't unbiased I like Rust more than C++ for a couple of reasons.

C++ is acceptable in some places

It has references and it has a way of distinguishing between references which can change stuff and references that can't. It has smart pointers std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr (we'll come back to this) alongside RAII via destructors ~class_name. It has declarative/functional ways of working with iterators via stuff in the algorithm header in particular std::transform, std::copy_if and std::find. This is all nice and if C++ didn't have it I would complain about it. Anyways onto complaining about C++ due to being spoiled by Rust.

Complaints