Rust was a surprise to me. I didn't expect to like it (I'm a Kotlin person) but I ended up pretty happy with it overall. I'm happy to pay the complexity tax as

Rust was a surprise to me. I didn't expect to like it (I'm a Kotlin person) but I ended up pretty happy with it overall. I'm happy to pay the complexity tax associated with the borrow checker. You get outstanding performance and you usually don't need to dive deep into lifetimes to get some basic code running. The language itself is reasonably pleasant but is missing some key features that really annoy me: - No overloading - No default parameters - No named parameters - Awkward constructor syntax which causes a lot of copy/pasting boiler plate But overall, I'd say Rust is safely in my #2 spot, with Kotlin a bit ahead at #1.