> New Rust users are coming, predominantly, from other languages instead, notably Java and Go, and scripting languages
True
> The appeal of safety is not what wins the users it gains today.
You are wrong here, mate. If borrow checker prevents mass adoption, I am okay with that. I have dabbled enough problems in poorly written code by "full stack" developers who write code by combining different blog-posts from Medium without any thoughts to underlying memory model, that I am happy that some language feature prevents these folks to take up a Language.
Might as well go back to Golang.
> New Rust users are coming, predominantly, from other languages instead, notably Java and Go, and scripting languages
True
> The appeal of safety is not what wins the users it gains today.
You are wrong here, mate. If borrow checker prevents mass adoption, I am okay with that. I have dabbled enough problems in poorly written code by "full stack" developers who write code by combining different blog-posts from Medium without any thoughts to underlying memory model, that I am happy that some language feature prevents these folks to take up a Language.