I wish extreme Rust solipsists would stop blankly stating as a fact that working in Rust is 'easy' just because they find it so. If you do, good for you, but your experience is not universal. Many don't.

I find Rust extremely difficult and slow to work with. It takes me a long, long time to get anything working at all. Easily 5x more than any other language I've used (and that's many, and a good handful professionally), and I've been learning Rust for over a year.

Figures are hard to come by of course, but anecdotally I'm the only person in my circle who's continued using Rust. All the others have dropped out because they just find it too hard to get anything done in. Not sure if this is true, but I heard on a podcast the other day that one of the big surveys showed Rust to have the biggest learning drop-out rate of any mainstream programming language. That wouldn't surprise me, and comports well with Rust being the 'most loved' (people tend to love skills they have gained with much effort!).