We mainly use high level languages like TypeScript or Python because they work well for us. We do use C/C++ from time to time though, both for high performance

We mainly use high level languages like TypeScript or Python because they work well for us. We do use C/C++ from time to time though, both for high performance requiring bottlenecks and for embedded since we do work with solar plant technology. A couple of years ago we looked into Rust and found it a combination of nice and wanting. It’s sort of great for low level programming and not really worth your time for anything else. Or at least that’s what we decided. We did adopt it and build a few solar inverter applications with Rust where we might’ve used C/C++ before, and it’s a decent language and nice to work with. But then a few months back, or maybe it was longer, some drama hit the ecosystem. Again it was so unimportant to us that I can’t even begin to remember what it was about, but similar to this Serde “drama” it speaks about an immature ecosystem and community. From a purely risk management offset we decided to stop using Rust for the time being. Which probably sounds more dramatic than it is, because we don’t really care about a lot of these issues and we’re probably never even going to be affected by them. But why would we want to spend time and energy on a technology which might change a lot? Well, the quick answer is that we won’t. Take this Serde issue as an example, it’s a very used package. I’m not sure exactly what people use it for, I assume that it’s for things we would likely build in Python, but even with 170 million users it’s main maintainer seems to be an issue. I even agree with the maintainer, but if the Rust ecosystem doesn’t have someone who can fork it and maintain a non-binary version to meet the wants and needs or all these noise makers, well then that’s not exactly a mature ecosystem. So I think the answer is that it’s mostly just noise, but it’s noise you probably don’t want to have to deal with unless you’re invested in Rust itself.