This is a vague sentiment so it’s okay if it doesn’t mesh with you, but I like Rust because it’s a great example of language design done well. I’m not claiming Rust did everything right but I’d say it’s a great example of programming language design that manages to balance theory, practice, user experience, tooling and safety. I think any developer can learn a lot from Rust’s design. Including what not to do!

Also it’s just plain fun sometimes. I love expression based syntax where you can assign to an if or have a block result in a value. It just feels delightful. The standard library is very constrained but within those constraints it has a lot of wonderful depth. Functions like split_once or unwrap_or_else are delightful to use. It gives me that same feeling as Ruby where the language feels designed to have you enjoy writing code. The language has all of the requisite tools I want to model data structures including tuples, structs, and enums. It’s great! Try it out and see for yourself