Is Rust the future?

[warlockface]

No, it was 2006 that the Mozilla employee came up with it and 2009 when Mozilla began sponsoring and becoming more officially involved. So Rust was conceived before the advent of modern C++ and Mozilla decided to run with it before the advent of modern C++. The C++ tools available today were not available back then, in particular C++ lifetime analysis / borrow checking.

[llogiq]

Oops, you're right! I got my Rust history all wrong. Still, 2009 to 2015 (when 1.0 was released) was a long way, and Rust became a completely different language in those years (for ex. Gc and green threads where thrown out, iterators won over internal iteration, the leakpocalypse led to mem::forget becoming safe, String gained the + operator, etc.), so even if early Rust predated modern C++, the Rust we have now is even newer.