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Valentin Baca

Accepting that I'm being a bit nit-picky: you don't have to "move from" one to the other. They're tools for your kit. Not exclusionary religions. A carpenter doesn't move from hammers to nail guns; you learn how to use both and decide if/when to use each.

While I wouldn't recommend trying to learn every new language that pops up on your radar, Rust has shown itself as a serious language worth picking up if you're in the C++ world.

If you're at least familiar in C++ enough to put it on your resume (and not risking being a jack of no trades), then go ahead! It's great to learn a language with other people. Yay community!

If you're not at least at resume-level with C++, I'd stick with that. C++ isn't dying anytime soon.

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Douglas R Andreani

up my game in C++ is one of my focus now. thank you very for you advice

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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

Seconding this! I'm in the process of learning Rust as well; that tradeoff I mentioned in my other comment has different outcomes for different projects.

By the way, this needs to be put on a billboard in every major tech city...

You don't have to "move from" one [language] to the other. They're tools for your kit. Not exclusionary religions.