[stouset]

Rust is literally the most beloved language in SO's developer survey and has been for several years running.

In my own experience, it's allowed me to write software that pretty much doesn't have bugs, and I say this as a 25 year veteran of being an engineer. The extra bits of complexity that are in the language allow me, the developer, to not have to write code to deal with that complexity in my own projects. It's handled for me.

Rust's primary competition is C and C++. It compares favorable on the overwhelming majority of axes against either. Not every one, but most.

[ncmncm]

There is plenty I can say and do in C++ that cannot be said at all in Rust. Rust is adding complexity very quickly, but has a very long way to go to match C++'s expressive power. In some ways, it never will match C++, having permanently closed off those avenues.

You will know Rust is beginning to catch up when people complain about it as much as C++.

Not everybody needs the expressive power of C++. Certainly most Java, Go, and C coders who have no inkling of most of what I rely on C++ for, or even for what many rely on Rust for. But for those of us who do, there is simply no contest. Nothing else will do.