I have been following Rust for a while, and it looks like a failure due to overcomplexity and community. The language was clearly designed by PhDs with no practical experience.

The community is anti-object-oriented so much, that it makes it very hard to make normal or complex graphs. Which is common in business software and games. This is why we have a doom and all kinds of games in Javascript, but not really in Rust. I had some discussions with Rust-community about this and was explained that the only solution was to make an array, and replace all references with indices. It does not clean up the references of course. So in practice, if you want to make it work for a long time, in Rust you have to make your own indexed database. Stuff like this is no problem in C or many other languages.

If we look at the actual problems with OO we see that they are due to C++ madness, and Java enterprise business. They invented all kinds of fixes to overcome problems of the languages and failed dramatically. But we see that in Scala or Smalltalk the problem is a lot less. Here if there are problems with OO, they are caused by mixing different strategies and bad designs.

But if you are looking for the purfect programming language,
get your hands on C@ (reddit link).