My question would be is the learning curve better or worse than, say, Swift?
If the curve is small moving from A to B can make a lot of sense. Rust is an obvious possible successor.
But as the curve gets bigger maybe looking at less obvious choices makes more sense. Maybe even a language with a runtime or VM like Java if you’re not doing low level programming like Google is in this post.
Swift is a strawman here. I know it’s probably not there for large non-Apple adoption today, but pretend it was