Comment by torginus

I feel like Rust hasn't won yet - it needs to transition from the cool technology people because of the hype, novelty and the clout it affords them to the pragmatic boring technology people use because it's the best tool for the job.

In this stage, the unique standout features are given a lot of limelight, and people are a bit more forgiving with usability failings and library shortcomings, as that can be fixed later.

If they fail, they'll be relegated to the 'perpetually misunderstood' pile, like Haskell has.

Node/Ts has made the transition a while ago, Go's ride was a bit more bumpy (most ppl agree the language is good, but channels are a bit of an acquired taste).

I think Rust is in the process of making the jump. I think language devs and library maintainers are a bit more responsive to the borrow checker usability gripes (rather than the knee-jerk 'you just don't get it' reaction) and the ecosystem expands in both depth and breadth. Imo the question of Rust making it is more of a 'when' than 'if', but it's not there yet.