[jinst8gmi]

It guarantees memory safety without a GC. The result is a high performance language that doesn't require manual memory management like C or C++, and generally consumes less memory, as noted by the Dropbox guys. It's an expressive language which is also suitable for systems programming. It's a more modern language than Go (in the sense that is incorporates modern features, unlike Go which keeps things simple by sticking to familiar features dating back to the 70's), but does require more time to learn.

[echelon]

Rust is also an absolute pleasure to write. It feels like a functional Ruby (minus the bad parts) with types. The RAII is natural; writing C++ feels cludgy by comparison.

Cargo is absolutely brilliant, too. It's better than NPM.

I'm writing most of my new side projects in Rust now, FWIW.