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I was recommended by someone to learn Rust, but without reason. Does anyone have any reasons for why I should look into this, apparently, new language?

• metajack 13y ago
  Great type system, memory safe, fast. It's like a wonderful mix of Haskell and Erlang to use when you'd otherwise reach for C++ or C. Of course, I'm quite biased :)
• pcwalton 13y ago
  The biggest selling point of Rust is that it allows you to write low-level code with memory safety (so no use-after-free, buffer overruns, Heartbleeds, etc) and without runtime overhead. Right now this is a niche that Rust has to itself, as far as non-academic languages go. It's like having a C++ static analyzer with guaranteed no false negatives built into the language. You also get nice high-level productivity features like type inference, lightweight closures, a module system, a modern take on interfaces, etc.