I am impressed with Rust in many ways. I briefly considered Rust when shopping for the right language for Snabb Switch [1]. I decided against it in part becaus

I am impressed with Rust in many ways. I briefly considered Rust when shopping for the right language for Snabb Switch [1]. I decided against it in part because the community did a good job of setting my expectations. "They" told me that Rust will especially appeal to hardcore C++ hackers, which is a very different profile to our target group of casual programmers. So I was able to move on quickly from a choice that really would not have suited me, with no ill will along the way. If for whatever reason I had been pressured to move ahead with Rust then I would have spent a lot of time swearing about the size and compilation time of LLVM, etc, before finally moving on to a tool that is better suited to the peculiar job at hand. So from my perspective that is great work by the Rust community - defining and communicating who the target user is - and now I would certainly consider Rust for other projects in the future. [1] http://lukego.github.io/blog/2012/09/25/lukes-highly-opinionated-programming-language-roundup-2012/ http://lukego.github.io/blog/2012/09/25/lukes-highly-opinion...