Rust has features besides memory safety that are generally useful — robust error handling, pattern matching, fast and powerful JSON support, nice package manage

Rust has features besides memory safety that are generally useful — robust error handling, pattern matching, fast and powerful JSON support, nice package manager, ease of deployment, first-class WASM support, etc. Some people value these features enough to use Rust even outside of its niche. Even when performance isn't critical, it may be a nice to have. I sometimes feel like Rust is overcompensating for its hard parts :) It's not easy to learn its memory management, but the error messages do their best to teach you!