As someone who learnt Rust after trying to learn C, I disagree. Basic C is easy. I could write a data structure. But as soon as you want to do anything useful, like parse command line arguments or use open gl, C becomes much more complicated.

Rust code is actually pretty similar to JavaScript code, in that I can pull in a library `cargo add regex`, and work with high level abstraction right away.

Of course, there are new concepts to learn, but the Rust book covers these pretty well (I've been unable to find similar documentation for C/C++ that doesn't run to hundreds of pages).

My observation is that many people learn C/C++ at university (where there is lot's of support for learning the arcane folk knowledge of "the right way" of doing things in those langauges), and subsequently find Rust hard, because it introduces new concepts, and doesn't work in the same vein as C/C++.

For those of us coming from higher level languages, Rust is much easier, because it provides guard rails and prompts us when we go wrong, and because once a few new concepts have been learnt, a lot of our existing concepts can still be applied.