I’m not op of course, but from a career perspective you have to make choices based on what will give you the most opportunities in the future.

Right now Rust is technically safer language but it doesn’t have the same amount of job postings and career opportunities as C++. That’s just an inertia problem.

The conundrum is if you jump in early and risk the language becoming yet another language or do you wait and see.

I haven’t coded C++ in 4 years, but my understanding is that the language is evolving to answer the threat Rust poses to it.