Rust is trying to compete from a popularity point of view, but C++ is now trying to compete with Rust from a language point of view.

Look at the first comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18037566

And there's a pattern matching proposal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21933590

And CJJ23 only just added `string::contains`, `string::starts_with` and so on after Rust had them. Coincidence? I think not! (j/k obvs.)