I generally agree with your reasoning but not with your premises: Rust doesn't feel like a low level language. It's an expressive, typed language with a powerf

I generally agree with your reasoning but not with your premises: Rust doesn't feel like a low level language. It's an expressive, typed language with a powerful package manager. Yes, you lose prototyping speed by thinking about memory and safety but the development experience is pretty neat. I'm using it for writing web servers mainly because of the rich type system. The speed and low memory usage is a nice bonus.