Google's Android team supports Rust for developing the Android operating system. Now they're also helping evaluate Rust for Linux kernel development. Their hopes, among other things, are that "New code written in Rust has a reduced risk of memory safety bugs, data races and logic bugs overall," tha...
Mostly memory safety vs other systems languages. I’m not super knowledgable on the details as I’m a hobbyist pythonista, but I’ve been looking through the Rust book to slowly learn it for projects that might be better than using Python.