Anything Rust gets the post to number 1 spot. What makes Rust special that other programming languages don't enjoy ?
I beg to differ. If anything, Rust is often cited as being hard to read.
A lot of the fancier stuff is very different, but there's fairly close parallels to most of the basic syntax.
Not to mention one could hand pick examples which is what I'd expect from slides of a talk.
So we need Rust for younger generations.
Rust code is littered with things like |_|, (|&(&x, _), &mut, &'a and Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>>.
It's anything but easily readable.
This is bunk. Simply run this search[1] and behold the stream of Rust related submissions that get no play at all; zero comments and no more than one or two up votes. These instances of highly ranked rust stories are actually the exception; no more than one or two a week typically. The rest of the Rust stuff is seen by almost no one.
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=rust&sort=byDate&prefix&page=1...
Features like Haskell—destructuring bind, useful type system.
Performance like C, including no GC.
Makes it a good option when reliability and performance matter (think web browser, database or anything at the OS level).