As a CS major in school who is mostly self taught using the internet, I'd say Rust's big win is how it takes basic concepts from low to high level without bothe

As a CS major in school who is mostly self taught using the internet, I'd say Rust's big win is how it takes basic concepts from low to high level without bothering me or killing performance entirely. Just the presence of well integrated Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) makes an incredible amount of difference. They are used to represent errors in a meaningful and easy to understand way (```Result<T>```), are used to show that a function may or may not return a meaningful value without needing a garbage value (```Option<T>```), and the optional case can even be used to wrap a null pointer scenario in a safe way (```Option<Ref<T>>``` being the closest to a literal translation I think). That's just one small feature that permeates the language. Whatever the opposite of a death-of-a-thousand-cuts is, Rust has it.