"Edit: also worth adding that he Rust core team has been amazingly friendly and helpful. We've had several meetings with them where they came to our office and basically said "how's it going? what do you need? open up your laptop and show us your biggest problem." The project is under very good management."

When Rust was being developed, the two languages that got me most excited as next-gen, systems tech were Julia mainly and Nim somewhat. They had a great choice of features balancing all sorts of attributes as PL's that might get easy adoption as C++ alternatives. Thing is, many blog posts reported their communities and dev teams were downright vicious on everything from questions to compiler bugs (wtf!?). That made it a no-go as there's an upper-bound on how good those projects can get building on such a creaky, hostile foundation.

That leaves Rust as my default recommendation for new, non-critical projects in this space. Like Dropbox employee, what I've noticed is the two of you on Rust teams here are unusually helpful and respectful compared to many in PL communities defending their work. Even pcwalton when he's clearly less than happy with my comments. ;)

The combination of brilliant design and seemingly (from my little exposure) excellent community is why I promote Rust. So, keep up the great work all of you! :)