Never had any myself, but there were two good blog entries published about it over the last couple of weeks. One of which focused on using it for systems programming in *nix.

http://designisrefactoring.com/2016/...ts-core-values

http://kamalmarhubi.com/blog/2016/04...programming-3/

the second blog post is an example as to why i won't even try

maybe in 5 years

It's amusing all these attempts to use anything apart from the 'daddy' for system programming on *nix.
Whenever anything java gets put on my virtual machines I immediately need to double the CPU and quadruple the RAM.

C wipes the floor with anything when it comes to speed, efficiency and memory usage.

Rust doesn't have anything to do with Java. It's more like the brainchild of C++ and ML.

It is also really fast: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/rust.html

I think it's quite impressive for a new language. I probably won't get to use it to build a new thing in anytime soon, but it's certainly on 'the list'. "The Rust Book" is an excellent introduction to the language.

Rust is probably harder to use if you're used to C or Python, or at least it was for me. Instead of doing something weird at run time when you pick the wrong type, the compiler will instead give you an error until you fix it, a lot like using -Werror but definitely more strict.

And development time, and overflow protection, and..