A lot of big expectations were placed on Rust; plenty will have turned away and decided the trade-off on development velocity wasn't worth the guarantees of mem

A lot of big expectations were placed on Rust; plenty will have turned away and decided the trade-off on development velocity wasn't worth the guarantees of memory safety or the promise of zero cost functional abstractions; not to mention it still requires expertise to write something performant. I've certainly done it myself, dipping my toes in the water out of curiosity and realising it wasn't what I needed. Many people here say that languages like Ruby or frameworks like Rails are dying, or some such, but in reality these languages just carve out their space, settle into it, and become the go-to choice because there's nothing surprising about them any more. If Rust can be considered stable or boring in this way then it will have succeeded where a lot of new and novel languages tend to fade into obscurity.