I’m not that into rust… not that it’s bad necessarily, but I understand it Introduces it’s own set of limitations. like the strict memory features are great for some projects (like Firefox) but an inconvenience for some embedded stuff.

I use C++ and my dad is an advanced/professional embedded C++ programmer. Also hard to get something that is so compatible with C. Which C is the baseline especially in embedded projects which tend to ship with their own tool chains…

But I don’t really care since I will pivot to just about any language if the project is something I really want to contribute to. Or if it’s clear a component should be implemented in a given language.

So C++ does its job very well which is to be an advanced super set of C. I don’t see how Rust is going to ‘replace’ that in any time soon. If you are a beginner programmer then I would try to understand both and figure out which one is going to be more useful to you personally.