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People who don't like #Rust: why specifically don't you like it?
I'm in the process of learning it now. There are definitely some things about the language that I can see some as finding irritating (i.e.: the borrowing system). Personally though, I'd rather have a dozen complie-time errors than a single runtime error. This is the reason I tend to gravitate towards Haskell, for instance.
It's certainly not the right language for everything, but if you want better safety in code that needs to be highly efficient, it seems a reasonable alternative to C/C++.
@me As a #Scheme hacker, #Rust has nothing I need:
Exploratory, interactive programming, with a REPL.
Dynamic types, I can do an (assert (Foo? x)) if needed, but having to write Foo x, or Foo<T:Bar> x, everywhere sucks.
My errors are never caught by strict typing or borrow checking. I make much higher-level logic errors.
Garbage collection or ARC equivalent is the only way to safely manage memory. STOP manually doing it. Even in C, you can use Boehm GC!
Scheme compiles to fast binaries.