Interesting that the only con listed for Rust is Not enough people are using it, compared to the serious criticisms of the others.

There isn't a lot of good software written in Rust, open source or not. It's a lot of small and half-finished stuff here and there. The actual software out there is the ultimate, unforgiving, unfraudable review of a language, not what people say.

Developers seem to like Rust (or at least pay lip service). It's understandable. We are all suckers for a golden hammer. Rust promises no data races, no dangling pointers, high performance, and best of all it can run on numerous targets, making it a contender for The Last Language you have to know.

But you don't judge a restaurant's performance by the holiness of the chef's choice of tools in the eyes of other chefs. What is the most profitable piece of Rust software or the piece of Rust software that the most people depend on? If it wants to be taken seriously at the systems programming table, then we should see the Unix coreutils written in Rust (with all the command line flags working exactly the same way). Come on, replace GNU. You say you can do it faster and safer than everyone else. Let's see it.

> There isn't a lot of good software written in Rust, open source or not. It's a lot of small and half-finished stuff here and there.

Perhaps you and I have very different definitions of "a lot" or of "good", because I don't agree with this at all. There are plenty of high profile Rust projects with excellent production track records. Linkerd, TiKV, and Firecracker (originally crosvm) come to mind immediately, and of course Servo. Facebook also selected it for Libra, Google for Fuchsia.

> half-finished

Literally all of the things you mentioned (except linkerd which is mostly Go) are half-finished incubator projects. Rust has been around for over 10 years. Come on.

There is literally no Rust in the main repo:

https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2 https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd

It's confounding how a project that doesn't include Rust is included in Rust's "Greatest Hits."

Citing a cryptocurrency that...for all intents and purposes, doesn't really exist right now, is also a strange choice.