[scabarott]

>Rust is seeing production use in many places and its being accepted more as the sane alternative to C for modern development of high performance software

Not quite there yet.

[swsieber]

Not quite where yet? It's seeing lots (albeit quiet) of production adoption, and it's still growing.

[downerending]

Viewed from here, Rust has far less penetration than Python did in (say) 1995. I see more Julia than Rust, for example.

Whatever its benefits, Rust remains quite obscure for now.

[faitswulff]

Probably more of a compelling alternative to C++, and not as much so for C (yet), from what I've read so far.

[scabarott]

I'm not sure it's even a compelling alternative to C++ at this point. The borrow checker is sometimes unpredictable and hard to reason about and the language syntax is not always consistent. I think we will see more adoption in the future but there are reasons why it has not been adopted as much as one would have expected.

[swsieber]

Yes. Besides being distinctly more like C++ than C, there are other less complex languages (zig comes to mind) that are contending for that area.