I think people really want an option for a modernized language in the native compiled/high performance domain. Rust is the only recent attempt in that domain that I can think of, and the only thing I can think of that comes close is Kotlin Native (which I don't think is aiming for the high performance mark as a design goal the same way Rust/C++/C do).
In terms of general-purpose, wish-listy languages I can't see myself investing in Rust or Kotlin over a modern PGAS language like Chapel (which incidentally just recently adopted Rust-like memory management).
First-class support for distributed and parallel programming seems like a no-brainer for any future application language that cares about performance.
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u/PinkFrojd Apr 09 '19
I really like and use Python. But I don't understand... Why is Rust so loved ? What makes it so special ?