>Sir, ...

You may want to take a quick gander at the profile of whom you're replying to. :)

>... itching to give Rust a ride once it stabilizes just a bit more ...

Likewise, though from my limited research it seems Rust has legacy baggage of its own already, and there's difficulty in coming to a consensus on what qualifies as idiomatic Rust. It seems that the same principle of cherry-picking a subset of features would apply just the same to Rust as it does to C++. The latter being far messier, of course.