Once you get over the initial learning curve, Rust is a very capable and productive application language, and I'd argue that the whole "low-level"/"high-level"

Once you get over the initial learning curve, Rust is a very capable and productive application language, and I'd argue that the whole "low-level"/"high-level" divide is just a historical artifact. Sure, there used to be a tradeoff between performance and expressivity in a language, such that a "low-level" language would just become crufty and kludgy up to the point that someone would decide "screw it, we'll implement a safer but less performant language in this less safe but more performant one". Today, the hardware is much more powerful, and the theory and practice of software development is more advanced. Thanks to open source, devs have been exposed to good ideas from all corners of the ecosystem, so all that would remain is coming up with sane syntax and semantics - and Rust positively excels in that regard. I'm fluent in Python and JS, but I put off learning "low-level" languages because of the innumerable footguns. Go looks like it has plenty of those, too, and TypeScript is... just a mess. Rust is next-gen stuff in my opinion, and categorizing it as just a "systems-level" language makes no sense. It's "systems" all the way down, and the more kinds of systems a language can efficiently cover, the more good things can come out of it.