Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++

Amazing example of how easy it is to get sucked into the rust love. Really sincerely these are really annoying parts of C++.

The conversation function is more language issue. I don’t think there is a simple way of creating a rust equivalent version because C++ has implicit conversions. You could probably create a C++ style turbofish though, parse<uint32_t>([your string]) and have it throw or return std::expected. But you would need to implement that yourself, unless there is some stdlib version I don’t know of.

Don’t conflate language features with library features.

And -Wconversion might be useful for this but I haven’t personally tried it since what Matt is describing with explicit types is the accepted best practice.

meh, rust is still better cos it’s friendlier

I don’t disagree. Rust learnt a ton from C++.

I have my gripes with rust, more it’s ecosystem and community that the core language though. I won’t ever say it’s a worse language than C++.

Could you elaborate on those points, I'm genuinely curious? So far, I have found the Rust community to be immensely helpful, much more so than I experienced the C++ community. Granted, that's quite some time ago and might be at least partially caused by me asking fewer downright idiotic questions. But still, I'm interested in hearing about your experiences.