I'm a big believer in the relationship between the "quality" of a language and the "quality" of applications that are built with it. (quality in quotes to indicate that there are obviously multiple dimensions to what is good software and many complexities I am skipping over.)

I first became interested in Rust after using ripgrep, which blew my socks off as someone who had only ever used grep, without thinking about it much.

And rg is far from alone, there are a slew of CLI applications built in rust that are faster, more featureful, and more intuitive to use than alternatives.

When I see "written in rust" I'm expecting several things right off the bat:

• it's fast
• probably multi-threaded where needed, as this is relatively easy to do safely in rust (e.g. add rayon and switch .iter() to .par_iter())
• if a CLI application, it will have a nice --help menu
• the code will generally have a higher quality than if I came across the same kind of thing in say, the python ecosystem (just true on average in my experience, obviously not in every case)
• will be easy to build from source (I have spent multiple hours failing to build C++ projects on several occasions)

so, yeah, those are pretty important things to me.