1. Rust has had 10x better tooling right from the start. Cargo vs SBT, no joke.
2. Rust has improved its compiler performance by >3x in the last 5 years.
3. Rust hasn't gotten any major new language feature in the last 6 years. Most language improvement is improving orthogonality of existing features.
4. Rust has an excellent backwards compatibility story also right from the start. Code/libraries written in 2015 can be still compiled and used together with code from 2025.
5. Rust has a serious backing from all major IDE / editor providers.
6. Rust has integrates easily with other languages and ecosystems. It's easier to call Rust from Python than to call Scala from Python. It's easier and more performant to call C from Rust than to call C from Scala. Things like that. It's sad that Scala even struggled with interoperability with Java; which should theoretically be easy as it is the same platform.
Seriously, doesn't look to me like the same mistakes.
It's actually quite opposite.
2. Rust has improved its compiler performance by >3x in the last 5 years.
3. Rust hasn't gotten any major new language feature in the last 6 years. Most language improvement is improving orthogonality of existing features.
4. Rust has an excellent backwards compatibility story also right from the start. Code/libraries written in 2015 can be still compiled and used together with code from 2025.
5. Rust has a serious backing from all major IDE / editor providers.
6. Rust has integrates easily with other languages and ecosystems. It's easier to call Rust from Python than to call Scala from Python. It's easier and more performant to call C from Rust than to call C from Scala. Things like that. It's sad that Scala even struggled with interoperability with Java; which should theoretically be easy as it is the same platform.
Seriously, doesn't look to me like the same mistakes. It's actually quite opposite.