[BonsaiDen]

> We've also seen a _tremendous_ amount of interest from people who don't strongly identify as a 'systems programmer' at present.

Can't underline this enough, as a long time WebDev with a lot of JavaScript, Python and Lua experience, Rust really feels like a door opener into the bare metal* world.

Especially as a Node Dev I felt right at home with Cargo. And as someone who only rarely touches C/C++, having the compiler scream at me for the first 10 days or so was probably the best "tutorial" about memory management and ownership I've ever "read" :) Rust really made me think a lot deeper about who / where and when stuff will be owned and eventually destroyed.

Overall, the language, cargo and everything around them fit so well together, learning it has been a real joy so far :)

* Well I've also done Z80 assembler on GameBoy before but that's probably not what people today would consider "bare metal" these days.