Some takeaways from Google's internal research on the practicality of using Rust in production opensource.googleblog.com/20… The survey respondents were ~1,000 software developers who have been learning Rust. 😍 Rust is easier to learn than people think. Most developers felt productive after ~2 months. ⏱ The compiler is slower than what developers would like. 🤔 The most difficult things to learn about Rust were macros, async programming, as well as the Rust-specific concepts of ownership and borrrowing. 😍 Rust has amazing compiler error messages 😍 Rust code is high quality. "When asked to compare whether they felt that Rust code was more correct than the code that they write in other languages, an overwhelming 85% of respondents are confident that their Rust code is correct."