You are right Java succeeded. But not in the way that I see Rust is heading. I learned Java in early 2000s, not because it was a nice language to learn, but job

You are right Java succeeded. But not in the way that I see Rust is heading. I learned Java in early 2000s, not because it was a nice language to learn, but jobs were in it. I remember hating the entire process, the smell of Enterprise in everything. In Rust, most talks I watch are tiny games, graphics and visualizations, emulators, language interpreters, some web (every language must it seems), experimental databases, kernels, lots of rewrites of other system software... Almost nothing I see in general is production focused, forget enterprise. These are all from learners, hundreds of people falling in love with the language and the community. I have been in software for almost 2 decades, 15 years of them professionally. I have not seen this in a language that is also slowly going mainstream. Maybe I am wrong, but I am willing to bet a good chunk of my next 10 years to Rust. Rust will not replace lots of code in Python (my main language), for example. Taking parts out and optimizing them in C++ is something I would have never done. I would do it in Rust. That gives a systems language huge appeal to tons of developers from the top 10 non-systems languages.