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Oof, same, coming from python/Go and having some knowledge of C, I can say I love it.

But I work with C++ developers who are adamantly opposed to taking a jump because rust is harder for them to grok (as they suggest that they have to unlearn patterns).

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Rust is unstable, so there is no reason to learn it right now. Many revesions, version incompatibility, dependencies from unstable branch in main repository branch. It's absolutely useless for production right now if you don't want to write the whole thing from scratch.

Rust the language has been backwards compatible since 2015. We add stuff, but don't remove it.

Many, many companies, including big ones, are using Rust in production. They don't need to re-write things.

I'm coming from a PHP, JS, Python background. I've used strongly typed languages before, but not to a great extent.

Rust feels like a well designed language and ecosystem so far and I think it learned the lessons where other have failed.

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