[ilovecaching]

The grass is always greener. Rust also has rough edges and there's maybe a fraction of a fraction of a percent of Rust code out there to work on in the corpus of systems software, and a lot of it has to interface with C anyway. Even crates in Rust are overly complicated and they've set up a system that allows people to squat on well known names.

I think if you want to work on systems software you should enjoy working with legacy cruft, otherwise you're just going to be miserable. I mean it's everywhere from the language, to the POSIX APIs, to device drivers, to hardware quirks... C++ is only a quarter of the problem.