Another example is the "This Week in Rust" newsletter which takes progress that would've taken you hours to read about yourself, and puts it into a succinct format that you can get through in minutes [1].
The Rust 2017 roadmap which targeted forward movement on all the language's weakest features was admirable in itself, but even moreso is how much progress has already been made. In particular, I'm really excited about incremental compilation, which is showing as much as 5x speedups in early results [2].
I was also very happy to hear that the Rust team acknowledges that regardless of how performant they are, futures are not a particularly ergonomic or maintainable way to write code, and are considering what new constructs might look like over the longer term:
> Over the rest of this year, we expect all of the above libraries to significantly mature; for a middleware ecosystem to sprout up; for the selection of supported protocols and services to grow; and, quite possibly, to tie all this all together with an async/await notation that works natively with Rust’s futures.
I'm still on dabbling in Rust, but I'm fairly convinced that in another few years after this Tokio churn has gotten a chance to settle down and the async patterns are more broadly refined, there won't be many justifiable reasons to not write new projects in it, whether they're as low level as a Postgres extension, or as high level as a DB-backed HTTP application. It seems to have an almost perfect compromise between performance, safety, productivity, and ecosystem.
[1] https://this-week-in-rust.org/
[2] https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/05/15/rust-at-two-years.html...