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>Rust is seeing production use in many places and its being accepted more as the sane alternative to C for modern development of high performance software

Not quite there yet.

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Not quite where yet? It's seeing lots (albeit quiet) of production adoption, and it's still growing.

Probably more of a compelling alternative to C++, and not as much so for C (yet), from what I've read so far.

I'm not sure it's even a compelling alternative to C++ at this point. The borrow checker is sometimes unpredictable and hard to reason about and the language syntax is not always consistent. I think we will see more adoption in the future but there are reasons why it has not been adopted as much as one would have expected.

Yes. Besides being distinctly more like C++ than C, there are other less complex languages (zig comes to mind) that are contending for that area.

Viewed from here, Rust has far less penetration than Python did in (say) 1995. I see more Julia than Rust, for example.

Whatever its benefits, Rust remains quite obscure for now.

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