I think the big deal here is that Rust is the best language choice for many tasks among the languages an average coder might know. For me, it's taken over a who

I think the big deal here is that Rust is the best language choice for many tasks among the languages an average coder might know. For me, it's taken over a whole bunch of tasks for which I'd have whipped out Python before, which really surprised me. But it's absolutely not perfect at those tasks. Worse, now I see how Python was never perfect at them. I wish I knew which language combines their advantages for prototyping high level things.