Kudos to Mozilla. The chance of failure for this project is very high -- there's lots of new languages coming out all the time, and existing languages have huge infrastructure advantages. It's nice to see organizations take a flyer on something that has the potential to really make our lives a lot better.

Rust's design decisions make much more sense than Go. Rather than designing C+++, they've ditched shared mutable state, a global GC and null pointers, and the stupid parts of the C syntax.