So, steady-state performance that's about as good as Java or C# on average, but with memory safety, much smaller baseline executable size (yes, even compared to GraalVM Native Image; I haven't checked current .NET AOT), faster startup (yes, I know that's what Native Image does optimize), and lower memory footprint? I'll take that deal, even if there's a substantial gap between safe Rust and C++ or Zig. I badly wanted something like safe Rust when working on desktop applications throughout the 2000s and into the 2010s, and now it's here, with a strong and growing library ecosystem.