If you are writing a web application, as many people do, they are direct competitors, as you could easily use either one of them (or many others) and get the j

If you are writing a web application, as many people do, they are direct competitors, as you could easily use either one of them (or many others) and get the job done. And for many people in this case developer experience is 10x more important than GC or some advanced language features (that 90% of webapps won't care about). Btw. I really liked an introduction article about Rust in some Linux magazine (don't remember which one). Write hello world, print a number to stdout, handle option and result, no mention of pointers or algebraic data types theory. I am sure will get a lot of people into using it without scaring anyone. You really need very little to get started.