I doing a lot of C++ and I tried to use Rust for some projects and it was really painful. I like the language and cargo is just so much better than cmake.

Unfortunately I working mostly on cross platform desktop applications and for that Rust doesn't really have any good libraries. The pure rust library are missing too much features that I consider essential (accessibility, property bindings, declarative ui language, ...). I then looked at bindings for Qt are also missing important stuff like models. I also looked at the GTK bindings and those are a lot more polished but the code example I found where still not really nice read in comparison with the Vala code example I saw.

I'm still hoping that this will at some point changes.l, because yeah sometimes C++ can also be painful, particularly the C bits.