I like what I’ve seen of Rust, but every time I think, hey, maybe I should try a project in Rust, I fail to think of a project suited to Rust’s strengths.
I’ve talked to people using it to compile to WebAssembly for performance reasons, but all of my projects are fine with regular JavaScript performance. I’ve also heard of people making web services with it, but that’s the kind of thing I already know how to do in Node, again producing good enough performance.
Tom MacWright recently tried this. As usual, he thought critically about it and wrote up those thoughts. Apparently, Rust does not have a ton of support for web stuff.