> It is confusing to me, too, why a Ruby or Python user would look at Rust (for the same use cases). Perhaps it is because they are not looking at it for the s

> It is confusing to me, too, why a Ruby or Python user would look at Rust (for the same use cases). Perhaps it is because they are not looking at it for the same use cases, and more as something to augment their toolkit. Rust makes it possible to be a decent systems programmer without having to spend a decade of acquiring the war wounds to become a great C or C++ dev. In the past, the only real option for those devs if they wanted decent performance was Java, and it's really hard to get Java to talk to Ruby or Python, and it's also hard to understand what the JVM is doing under the hood. Rust is now a possible alternative.