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I don't know, Rust has Mozilla behind it, and lots of active development and (for a new programming language) a pretty decent community.

ATS is hosted on SourceForge, and looks to be someone's research project. That's totally fine, and it may actually be _better_, but the real world often doesn't care about better.

If I was a betting man, I'd be putting chips down on Rust. (and I sort of am...)

That said, the more programming languages the merrier!

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Rust may be more successful but at this time ATS is a better C replacement. Mainly because Rust is currently tied to a runtime and garbage collector. But also because ATS has better features for describing the API boundaries when calling into C and back (ie. FFI).

Rust will grow into these areas I'm sure because Mozilla will need them for Servo and safer programming.

Seems fair.

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