[nemothekid]

>Rust serves a niche market of systems programming that is so security focused that C/C++ just won't do. It's not useful for anything else (at least not anymore than Haskell is useful for anything besides university projects, in the real world at least).

You could call Java is niche for the same reason. Some of us want to write native, low overhead code in a language that has a sane design (only disparaging C++ here). It's about time C++ had more alternatives.