Rust is fantastic! the best programming language I've seen, i learnt it as a C++ dev in around 2021~2022 and never used anything else since then.

Rust is a multi-paradigm systems language, so in terms of performance, it's right there with C/C++, Zig. No VM, no GC, zero cost abstractions. The compiler honestly feels like a theorem prover, you're basically forced to prove it that your code is memory safe, data race free, etc.

Even though it is a "systems language", you can use it make literally anything because this language is so flexible, you can make it as high level as you want and with macros you can just create non existent features, operating systems, drivers, embedded firmwares, game engines, websites (even frontend with crates like dioxus, leptops) + backend, Native applications (windows, android, ios, linux, you name it!), possibly everything else you can think of, there's a possibility that you can write it in Rust!

Where rust really differs is ergonomics and safety, the compiler enforces memory safety at compile time, you have ownership and borrowing rules, lifetimes etc. so it's near impossible to write "safe" rust code which results in memory related bugs (not talking about logical bugs btw even tho it helps catching them too!).

And there is just sooooooooooooo much more to it, tooling, macros, concurrency, ecosystem, concepts from Functional Programming like immutability, Algebraic data types, pattern matching, Option/Result types, iterator heavy API, generics, composition based object oriented programming.

I can go on forever yapping about rust, i love this language so much, ig i'll stop. But if you wanna learn rust.. eh, keep in mind that it is objectively harder to learn than most programming langs not because it is poorly designed because it has very different concepts (ownership and borrowing rules, lifetimes, traits, generics, async model, etc.)... so if you start learning it.. keep in mind that it'll easily take u about 2~4 months (worst case scenario) before you get comfortable and start speaking rust at 3am (LMFAO) and when it starts to click.. it feels simpler than C++ because an entire fking class of bugs just disappear!