The language won't change a whole lot, but the libraries will.
I think that this depends on your expectations, I was quite disappointed to find that there isn't a clean way to make 'unit types' (second, millisecond, meters, etc) in Rust..
I wouldn't use Rust for anything but toy project..
Actually, there's this bit on Tuple Structs[1] in the tutorial:
> Types like this can be useful to differentiate between data that have the same underlying type but must be used in different ways.
struct Inches(int);
struct Centimeters(int);