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I can't see Mozilla abandoning Rust. If nothing else, it's valuable as a learning experience for all involved.

Being described as a "learning experience" usually indicates that a project was just scrapped.

I meant that it can be called a learning experience to justify further development. Besides, Rust is genuinely useful. I can't be the only one who is interested in (eventually) using it as my go-to language for my projects.

You aren't.

Personally, once Rust stabilizes as a language, I plan to write the bulk of my "low level" at-home code in Rust. After tooling support gets up there (providing things are still awesome), I plan to use it professionally.

Ditto. The safety is just too attractive to pass up.

Will the safety work reliably in a multithreaded environment?

They claim so, using M:N threading. Data race safety is one of the design constraints.

Their formal type system is designed around pointer safety for multithreaded environments.

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