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Actually you could have achieved most of that with Ada, Modula-2, Mesa/Cedar, Object Pascal, but we had to wait for the pendulum to get back.

I agree that Rust, besides its technical excellence based on all of these prior languages, also hit a sweet spot with its timing.

Oh definitely. Rust was the first to be trendy enough to get traction though. I'm not bashing previous attempts to replace c.

Dependency management, packaging, and testing are what really made Rust take off. The best of any language I've used.