Granted Rust has some paradigms and constructs which are not easy to learn, I found it rather exciting. I think it has future scope.
Wonder whats happening with Redox. I hope Rust adds more libraries, especially network related, since the networked world is increasingly looking like a distributed OS of sort. Browsers are looking like an OS or a shell inside the OS. Browsers are getting more complex with more functionalities added every few months. Not sure I expressed my thoughts correctly, but I guess one can understand what I mean.
Rust should move away from C standard library, if possible.