A previous workplace experimented with Rust for internal services and the feedback was almost uniformly negative. Commonly cited reasons were the long compile times, limited standard library, and generally unstable best practices. One interesting quote was "why are you forcing me to waste a bunch of time doing needless bookkeeping when I create and pass around a string?"
The blog post about "Why strings seem hard in Rust" was not met with excited reactions.
The blog post about "Why strings seem hard in Rust" was not met with excited reactions.