Rust is the latest in a long line of greatly hyped programming languages, for example: Lisp, Smalltalk, Ada, Eiffel, Objective-C, Ruby, Java, C#, D, Groovy, Scala, F#, Clojure, Haskell, Lua, Nim, Go, Dart, Kotlin, Julia, TypeScript, Elm, Elixir, and Swift. Some of these, I imagine, were before your time.

Some of them have achieved success; many more have flopped or failed to gain prominence.

All of them have at one time gained a significant following (adoption by major companies, a growing community and ecosystem).

Just saying that Rust isn't a flash in the pan doesn't make it true.

My point is that there is no guarantee, and the odds are against you.

Clojure, Haskell, Julia, Elm, and Elixir enjoyed nearly a decade of hype. Where are they now?