> It's been around for roughly six or eight already, depending on how you count.

I don't think you get to play on both sides of that fence. Some of your team has been working on Rust for that long, but I doubt any code with sigils compiles, and I doubt there were many large projects using it then. I started my stopwatch at May 2015.

> Ten years is not that long a time.

Totally agree.

> I still agree that results at that point will be more interesting then speculating today.

We'll see on May 2025. :-)