I used Rust for my toy project and I liked the concept of borrowing. For me personally it felt a little bit like crossing of C++ and Python - all static typing and, curly brackets and semicolons (I honestly like it) and growing number of packages available through cargo (which seems somewhat similar to pip, however still not very popular). All in all my toy project is not super complicated (although I think domain problem is quite interesting) but I found Rust fit for the purpose and quite enjoyable to use. I'm running on Linux only so I had no problems with cross-compilation (as some mentioned they had).