Happy birthday (or rather, stabilization day) to Rust! I really enjoy programming in it, and I sincerely hope I'll manage to use it at work soon. Some years ag

Happy birthday (or rather, stabilization day) to Rust! I really enjoy programming in it, and I sincerely hope I'll manage to use it at work soon. Some years ago, I managed to write one component of a data processing pipeline with it, and it worked well, but the whole project ended up being scrapped because of unrelated reasons. Using Rust was possible because the project was really small, so I had a lot of freedom in choosing the technologies, but at the time the ecosystem and the human part of the equation wouldn't have scaled. I think the time is significantly more ripe now. The biggest hurdles are no longer in the language itself or the tooling or lately even because of ecosystem limitations, but rather, inertia and concerns about whether there are enough people who know it, and even that is improving rapidly.