[carlmr]

I think this is also the result from Rust being really good in two spaces that have faced little competition before.

Anything that was written in C or C++ before, and anything written for the web (Rust seems to me to be the only language that cross-compiles easily to WASM, and is useful in the required GC-less context).

So now there are a lot of programs in C/C++ that people have been using for years that often cause some kind of issues, because it's really hard to get memory safety right here.

And there are a lot of things written for the web, where people want something more sane than JS, and even though typescript already filled that hole in a sense, there is just so much space here that Rust still has little competition here.