Rust is the answer to the question "can we have speed, correctness, and expressiveness in one language?" My company has been running Rust in production for awhile now, and it's exceeded every expectation. It's fast, it's safe, and it's so productive it's hard to find a reason to use anything else.
We've also found that the learning curve is, in our opinion, a bit overstated. We've ramped up several new grads on Rust with the O'Reilly Rust book. We see real productivity in about two weeks, which is actually faster than it was to ramp them up on our C++ code base. The compiler errors are amazing and it's almost like giving them a built in tutor.
I'm very bullish on Rust becoming the language of choice in the 2020s for everything from operating systems, web services, desktop applications, and more. It's that good.
We've also found that the learning curve is, in our opinion, a bit overstated. We've ramped up several new grads on Rust with the O'Reilly Rust book. We see real productivity in about two weeks, which is actually faster than it was to ramp them up on our C++ code base. The compiler errors are amazing and it's almost like giving them a built in tutor.
I'm very bullish on Rust becoming the language of choice in the 2020s for everything from operating systems, web services, desktop applications, and more. It's that good.