Seems like a good enough reason to use it to me, but perhaps I’m just another cult member.
> we use Rust in production because we thought it would be easier (well safer) to teach to interpreted language OOP developers than c/c++
I think rust is just safer period, regardless of your level of expertise or background. Or are you saying that every memory safety bug was written in by someone inexperienced?
Not to mention the concept of “sharing code.” See I may write garbage tier rust code that basically glues together a bunch of libraries, many of those libraries are written by programmers way better than me, and I can gain performance and safety from using their work. The performance difference between languages like Rust and JS is huge, even if I, tainted by my background in Java, write dogshit code.