[Certhas]

Much ground has been covered here already, but let me add something concrete. I'm a scientist who lives in Python. However, sometimes I need code to be fast and precise. In Python we resort to things like numba or cython or weave to achieve that.

So why am I interested in rust? Well if you read around a bit in the literature, you'll find about a million ways to shoot yourself in the foot with C. I have been bitten by that in practice, with subtle memory allocation errors in C code I had to use, that manifested non-deterministiaclly and that I failed to debug without help.

I am very interested in a language that allows me to write fast compiled code, and do so safely, exactly because I'm not a C wizard or systems programmer who has a lot of experience writing mostly bug free code. I don't _like_ writing C code, it feels brittle. In python the python interpreter takes care of everything for me. When I go down to C (as cython or weave allow me to do) things become brittle. (And numba, while I love it and use it alot, is an exercise in constrained writing). Rust is not brittle.

In Rust, mathematics does for me what the python interpreter does on the python side. That's massive, and it's elegant.

It probably helps that I have written more papers including categories than programs involving C though.