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I had the same question as you so I checked. C++ 11 standard was released in 2011 of course. Rust development started in 2006 and Mozilla announced it officially in 2010.

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> C++ 11 standard was released in 2011 of course. Rust development started in 2006 and Mozilla announced it officially in 2010.

Given that c++0x was a decade in the making, by that measuring stick the answer is yes, C++11 does precede Rust.

It's a bit weird to take the release date for one, and the start of the development for the other. By that measure, the first pre-alpha (!) release of Rust was in 2012; the first stable release in 2015. On the other hand, the first RFC for C++0x was in 2008.

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