Comment by airstrike

I hear you, people have different preferences and rank their preferences in different order.

For what it's worth, I use Rust daily and I don't really care about memory issue. It's nice that it comes with the package, but it's not why I do it. Believe it or not, the borrow checker is first and foremost why I enjoy writing Rust. It's such a brilliant idea I don't understand why it's not more widely used. A helpful compiler and a good (if imperfect) crate ecosystem are probably 2nd and 3rd.