My only issue is how surprisingly weak Rust support is in my favourite editor. Rust seems to feel more popular than it is. Or maybe more people write Rust in a "no frills notepad" kind of way.
I've also just started writing Rust in the domain in which I write code, low level networking. I think I agree with Carmack in that it feels good. I can get hungup on syntax when learning a new language and I don't have that problem so much in Rust. I've been writing code in many different languages for close to 30 years and learning Rust feels mostly right. It feels like when I learned Python or LISP and I could guess at syntax and just get it right. As opposed to writing /bin/sh for over twenty years and still needing to constantly look up syntax :(
It doesn't feel like some languages I've learned in the past where everytime I investigate something I face-palm. It seems like the more I investigate it the right choices were made. Even when I'm frustrated with it because the compiler won't let me do something simple, I understand that maybe the bad habit I learned in C should end. Rust forces you to deal with things upfront that may become problems later. It's sometimes annoying when you want to just get shit done, but it's the 'right thing' to do.
It forced me to think harder about my code's structure. I think that's what I like about Rust too. Not being able to do anything means I have to be thoughtful.
Which also reminds me of how to be creative with games or writing or music: artificially limit yourself and you're forced to be more thoughtful.
If you need something more advanced, you can try clion from jetbrains with the intellij-rust plug-in.
I will need to try again. It's been six months.
I wish there was a trivial way to say to intellij, "steal all my config from vscode"
In the latest vscode release they now support multiline error messages so maybe the situation will improve.