[lhinds]

I did spend a shortime learning rust, and found Cargo really nice, but in the end I weighed up my time investment vs what benefits I would get from rust. I ended up sticking with Golang and Python. This decision was made, because the sort of apps I work on (OpenStack / Kubernetes / DevOps type workloads) have no need for the zero cost performance that Rust brings.

If I was building applications where performance is key (such as networking, Kernel, OS libraries etc), Rust would be great for me. But currently Go gives me enough speed and is far easier to make progress in (with the time I have available).

Rust has a great community, that was a key take I tool from my time there as a newcomer.