[OJFord]

I think that might be more obvious today than it was five years ago? In 2016 rust was already ahead of pony in adoption, sure, but they were both young interesting languages. The five years since have widened the gap considerably in maturity (of the core language as well as community/ecosystem) I think.

[forgotpwd16]

Rust had Mozilla behind it, a well-known relatively large tech organization/corporation. Most, if not all, popular languages nowadays tend to have/had some backing behind them.