Recently, there had been a call for blog posts reflecting 2017 and about which path Rust should choose in 2018.
First a few words about me. I was and still am a student, and most of my coding is for learning and because it is fun. Also, coding is a great excuse for procrastinating something more important :). Having contributed to open source codebases has helped me determine that I want to do this in a day job once I'm done with my studies.
I've heard about Rust somewhere around the 1.0 release in 2015. I don't know the details any more, but most likely it was a German tech news website. I've then read on about what Rust is and its promises like zero cost abstractions, fearless concurrency or the concept of safety really stood out. My background was C++ so I also quite liked the syntax. A bit later I decided to read the the book (first edition, back then