#programming
I don't think Rust is worth it. C++ can manage memory just as good as any garbage collected scripting language. Don't even think of memory allocation or freeing while coding in C++. It works itself. RAII.
And thus you can skip this whole Rust's borrower checking or falling down to "unsafe" when your code gets little bit complex and you can't compile it.
Use C++ like any scripting language. And make heavy use of std::*. You get best of both the worlds. Best of speed, plus best of convenience.