Comment by nimih

Idk, it also has a nicely expressive typesystem outside of lifetimes, a lot of modern syntactic features like pattern matching and monadic error handling, well-written compiler error messages, a well-designed standard library, and substantially less accrued cruft when compared to its largest competitor. Safety might be the cudgel its evangelists like to beat everyone over the head with, but there are certainly things to recommend it outside of that.