For me (also ~1000 lines of rust in production), the tooling and packaging was a huge winner. Having docs (with a doc generator), a test framework, a package ma

For me (also ~1000 lines of rust in production), the tooling and packaging was a huge winner. Having docs (with a doc generator), a test framework, a package manager, and a helpful [cross] compiler all put together, along with blazing speed and amazing reliability at runtime is an amazing combo.