I'm by no means a Rust fanatic, but I've had quite a different experience to many of the other commenters (especially around libraries etc) and I thought I ough

I'm by no means a Rust fanatic, but I've had quite a different experience to many of the other commenters (especially around libraries etc) and I thought I ought to share it. My background is as a generalist full stack developer using Node, Python and similar things. I have used C but only deployed one very small thing in production. I have managed devs using C++ but I took the view that I wasn't up to coding C++ for production (more or less Pit of Failure vs Pit of Success thinking). I started a commercial project some time ago which required one application (think data ingestion) to be high performance. I decided to try Rust and these are my observations: 1. I was able to learn Rust while writing a daemon/service application which performs well and is robustly handling millions of "objects" per day for the last 6 months. I don't think I would have managed this with C++ without blowing my own foot off several times. 2. Library support for everything I needed was excellent. I have yet to experience a breaking change since starting the work more than a year ago. 3. Library devs have been very responsive and chatty about problems etc... 4. Really enjoyed working a strongly typed and compiled language. Bugs are bugs, but I realize that I've had a habit of just spotting problems in production after the fact and fixing them for things that just shouldn't happen. It's like DB integrity once you get used to it, it makes you feel a lot better. 5. Syntax is ugly as all hell. 6. Async / Tokio stuff makes you feel like you have no idea what's going on. I think somewhere between the "Rebuild it in Rust" and "Rust is a horrible Deadend" there is a real opportunity to have a solid language which can allow devs of my level build decent software.