The Rust team decided to promote Rust as a "systems programming" language. And even though it can obviously do much more, and the bindings for most popular libraries are available [1], this label somehow attracts programmers who are more systems oriented and I think the language will continue to develop in this way, whereas Go/D/Nim will tend to try to be more general. [1] Imagine how surprised I was the other day to find Rust bindings to Allegro, a venerable game programming library from the old days of DOS and DJGPP...