&gt;It&#x27;s not going to be a particularly interesting thread if everyone who works in a language that trends higher than Go on Google chimes in to say &quot;you should learn my language instead, because it&#x27;s more popular&quot;.<p>I think C++ is unique in that it is really not as popular as many new languages, not as trendy and as much in the news, and not even taught as much in college programs, yet, it remains the language where so many jobs are. This gives anyone with the desire to learn it a good and marketable skill that can make it possibly easier to find work and continue making a living doing software development. That does not apply to Rust, so I think it&#x27;s a fair point to make to anyone who is asking about what languages are good to learn.<p>As for whether C++ has any techniques to teach that Rust does not, C++ is definitely a unique experience to go through and certainly gives a developer more insight into the actual machine they are working on in a way that few languages do.