[stoicShell]

Agreed, Rust's "popularity" in production projects is a topic to be revisited circa 2025-2030.

My personal intuition is that it will have become a strong alternative to C++ by then, and Go will probably eat the other side of that (at the 'upwards' frontier of C++, before/underneath e.g. Python), which given a decade could result in maybe 25-30% of major C++ projects moving or with plans to Rust/Go. That would be a healthy balance of alternatives, a true victory for these mid/low-level contenders.

It's not like the bottom of the stack can be won the likes of Python or Js at 80-90% within a decade. Structurally, it simply cannot.