> Rust is a game changer in that it is built from the ground up to offer memory safety without garbage collection and still aims for zero overhead abstractions.

Safe Rust cannot represent circular data structures which makes entire classes of algorithms and architectures unimplementable. You have to workaround these limitations by creating auxiliary structures for tracking references or use reference counting; neither are "zero overhead abstractions." Rust is only zero overhead if all you do is pass values up and down the call stack. Its false appeal says more about the simplistic types of applications folks are writing than anything else.