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I've heard of 'blub languages', where you don't realise that other languages have better abstractions until you've experienced them. I think the same thing happens with individual features. I've seen several C++ folks miss variadic generics in Rust, but I've not written enough C++ to feel it.

I really like "zero cost abstractions" as a programming language motto. It's really effective for evaluating design decisions. I've heard it for both C++ and Rust. Are there other PL mottos that are equally helpful?

Thoughtful talk on the compile time, runtime and cognitive overhead of abstractions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHIkrotSwcc