They're both blub languages, designed to be simple and boring but with lots of grafted-on cruft from the designers not realizing that complexity is a waterbed.

garbage collected, the usecases I see it, generally being used to write network services

In my experience, C++ is by far the most common language Rust is compared to. Rust will never stop being compared to C++.

Seriously? I love C++ and barely use Rust, but they both seem like pretty good languages to me.