I really hate all the &quot;let&#x27;s port everything to &lt;fancy new language&gt;&quot; whenever a security issue comes out.<p>That being said, the Rust community has done a lot of amazing work. There are people who are not just talking shit, but actually making attempts to port or rewrite some major things in rust.<p>I was thinking about using it for a project recently, but I found the GTK documentation to still be lacking.<p>Documentation is the biggest factor is language survival. I hated Python around 2002&#x2F;2003, but today the documentation is orders of magnitude betters. I really got into PHP back then thanks to its documentation, not realize how awful a language it was under the cover (although PHP7 seems to be making some huge strides to get it away from whale-guts status: an actual AST, name spaces, things that are slightly more sane).<p>So long as they&#x27;re more tutorials, stackoverflow questions and library projects for Rust, it will grow. I have pretty high hopes for it being a major language for embedded systems. Who knows, maybe in five years we&#x27;ll have production read Rust based kernels that can run existing docker containers.