I absolutely love the borrow checker. When I do stupid things, instead of me debugging segfaults in prod a week later, it goes "here dumdum, that won't work"

Rust gives me better safety than popular high level languages because it is properly typed AND C++ like performance.

In the past I'd always be forced to choose between:

fast development, slow runtime, big fat VM to lug around, no segfaults
slow development, fast runtime, no VM, segfaults

With Rust I finally get both! Fast development, fast runtime, no VM, no segfaults. It's a dream come true.

I get that there are some half-gods with 30 years of experience that can write safe and reliable C++, but I am not as smart as them nor have I 30 years to learn. And thrn again, even the best C++ developers still occasionally write memory management bugs. It's been more than a decade since I've actually been happy with a new programming language, and I love it.