(Hosting in a fake-blog for now until i get back to the computer with the blog files on them >_>)
I've seen a fair amount of discussion recently about what Rust's greatest "selling point" is. This was sparked by Steve Klabink's article about how Rust should be about ["more than safety"][safety]. There have been responses about how the community is top-notch, or how the titular safety allows people to feel empowered to write lower-level software than they had previously thought they were capable of. I'm going to add more words to the pile about a somewhat related point.