Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

Traits system is awesome and pure win. Pattern matching is not 
that game changing but helps often enough to feel important. 
Borrowship system is damn smart but totally impractical for most 
real-world cases. Macros are utterly horrible and pretty much 
unusable outside of advanced library internals.

Recently I attended local Rust meetup for curious newcomers - it 
was very interesting to observe reaction of unbiased devs not 
familiar with D at all. General reaction was "this is awesome 
interesting language that I would never use for any production 
system unless I am crazy or can throw away money like crazy". 
Because, well, productivity.

D has done many things wrong, but there is one right thing that 
totally outshines it all - it is cost-effective and pragmatical 
tool for a very wide scope of applications.