Others may give a better answer, but from my perspective -- a data engineer who started learning rust maybe 8-10 mo ago -- I find that I am enjoying Rust becaus

Others may give a better answer, but from my perspective -- a data engineer who started learning rust maybe 8-10 mo ago -- I find that I am enjoying Rust because: * It has algebraic data types, pattern matching, etc. - language features that just don't exist in most languages I've used. (I did play with F# for a bit and really loved its capabilities, but I've never had the occasion to get into F#, unfortunately.) Once I start using these features, I suddenly find that all these other languages are sorely lacking. * Its safety guarantees mean that I spend more time in the IDE fixing compiler errors and less time in the running exe finding my problem. I often find that when my program compiles, it is generally correct. This has given me a lot of confidence in the quality of my releases (borne out in actual production code, not just toy projects) * Speed of execution is (in my experience), better than an order of magnitude faster than in other languages for a similar implementation. YMMV, and there may be some of that New Relationship Energy here, but I can absolutely see why it's been on SO's most loved languages for five years in a row[0]. [0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-languages-loved https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-mo...