[pjmlp]

I hope that Rust succeeds in the mainstream.

If anything, please take my point of view of someone that cannot ever use Rust until the customers say I am allowed to.

On my type of work we only use first class languages, those that are provided as part of whatever platform we are targeting.

This is my point of view of "worse is better".

Many might have rejected C++ or C (e.g. I don't like C at all), but many more are on the same boat as I.

For us system programming means C++ and C, until the IT department or customer allows anything else on our dev machines.

[steveklabnik]

Absolutely. This is part of why I think "Will C or C++ die" is a silly question. We're in total agreement here.