Think of all of the applications built in C++. There are many. I expect rust to encroach on those quite a lot, as well as less system-y C code (such as utils).

Think of all of the applications built in C++. There are many. I expect rust to encroach on those quite a lot, as well as less system-y C code (such as utils). It's still early days. Rust is showing a lot of promise, for me personally, when writing high performance web services.