Aside from being a generally well-designed modern language with good tooling, I think the most interesting thing about Rust is that it accomplishes something th

Aside from being a generally well-designed modern language with good tooling, I think the most interesting thing about Rust is that it accomplishes something that I wouldn't have thought was even possible until Rust came along: they made a memory-safe language that doesn't use garbage collection. The end result is that if you want to write high performance code, you don't have to do it in a language that's difficult to use correctly.