> there are a lot of people just learning Rust who might be "oversold" on what the language can and can't do, and are surprised when their programs fail hard ra

> there are a lot of people just learning Rust who might be "oversold" on what the language can and can't do, and are surprised when their programs fail hard rather than statically preventing all bugs (or, worse, silently doing the wrong thing). Sure, that sounds like a good explanation. I guess I'm here too long to expect perfect stability from anything. That said, I still think that all things considered Rust ecosystem is one of the more reliable I've worked with. Both from the development and production experience. In the context of development I very rarely have any problems with installing or using libraries. Definitely much less frequently than in npm, rubygems or pip. In the context of production it's even better I think. Yes, occasionally you run into a problem, but most of the times systems written in Rust just work without virtually no crashes. The only big issue I ran into in the past was the Warp web framework having a memory related bug, which led to it using the entire available memory given enough traffic. It was an early version of the framework, though, so hardly something I would be very surprised about.