[LabMechanic]

What concrete advantages does OP gain from solving a problem in Rust? If you're considering creating a language binding in Rust, you can't easily bypass C, the predominant language for operating systems, and may end up using “unsafe” anyway. While you can designate certain parts as safe and others as unsafe, the real question is: what tangible benefit does this bring to you? Is safety truly a crucial factor? Various tools like Clang-Tidy and cppcheck, as well as the SEI CERT C Coding Standard, address safety concerns.

On the flip side, Rust has great error messages and boasts a robust package manager, “cargo” (more convenient than say CMake) but lacks libraries such as STB, Catch2, nlohmann::json, and DirectX Math, OpenGL, …

Although there are bindings to libraries for DirectX Math created by others, the question remains: are they genuinely production-ready? C and C++ have a long history, they are different languages, but they are arguably orthogonal. Not completely different.

I would say: do not focus on languages, more on solving problems. That means, learn fundamental subjects well (geometry, linear algebra, calculus, differential equations). If people like Karpathy and Jensen are right, then being very good at a particular programming language might not have much of an importance.

https://karpathy.medium.com/software-2-0-a64152b37c35