http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/
(I appreciate some things have changed with Rust since the article was written.. It also reeks slightly of C
This is of particular relevance because in my performance comparison Rust came out top, beating C++. Now, neither my Rust or C++ implementations were hard-core optimised, but maybe that's the point. They were straightforward code versions of my algorithm and Rust was quicker. In addition, Rust is a safe language.
The point of the article is that C++ does a pretty great job at what it does and there has never been a viable replacement. For safe languages, there is a large choice, Go/Scala/Java/C# and so on.
Why is this interesting? Simply because after multiple diversions I'm ready to settle on a single language for some upcoming projects. Java is calling me as I wrote my fledgling, uncompleted game in it.
Edit: This is an interesting counter: http://cantrip.org/rust-vs-c++.html.
