[Danidada]

But was Rust on the forefront of industry adoption in 2014? It seems it wasn't even officially released until 2015 according to Wikipedia and the only known project that I'm aware of that was using Rust back then was Mozilla's Servo which is (semi?) dead. Similar languages back then that could have replaced Rust and had similar potential were Nim and D and both of them failed to get a significant industry adoption

[steveklabnik]

The link I posted below contains commentary on why they chose Rust over various other languages.

There were other production users of rust in 2014, notably Dropbox and a bunch of cryptocurrency stuff. But not very many, it’s true. A lot of folks waited until 2015 to start building on Rust after it stabilized.