The only major cons to rust imo are the slow compile times, the steep learning curve and the immature ecosystem. You can solve the first hurdle with better har

The only major cons to rust imo are the slow compile times, the steep learning curve and the immature ecosystem. You can solve the first hurdle with better hardware (for the same price as our usual specced macbook pro, I opted to custom build a beefy workstation with a 3790X). The second, you just solve with time. I remember when I first started with rust I hated it. I was working on a native project, and felt like it would have been easier to do in C++. But internally now we have more mindshare and knowledgeable folk who understand Rust - this has helped tremendously in onboarding engineers to the language. Also, having a working editor (via rust-analyzer) and the quality of compiler error messages have improved significantly in the past few years. In terms of immature ecosystem, I think the rate at which the ecosystem is advancing is incredibly promising. Tokio hit 1.0 in Dec 22 of last year, which will finally put an end to the dependency upgrade thrash we've had to deal with. Going from tokio 0.1 -> 0.2 -> 0.3 -> 1.0 has been a journey. But with 1.0, finally, libraries will have a stable API to target, so we won't have to worry about this much for a while. Additionally, in the following months we intend to start funding critical open source rust projects that we use to ensure their success.