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Rust is on track to soon--within ten years--become an industrially important language. I see no other language on the horizon that could take Rust's place alongside C++, in the places where they both excel.

That is not to say it will certainly become industrially important. It depends entirely on the numbers. Today, the total number of working Rust coders may be less than the number who start coding C++ in any given week. (This is a simple consequence of the difference between a base of thousands vs. millions.) But if it can sustain exponential growth long enough, and nothing else comes up in the meantime to take the wind from its sails, it should get there.