Even more important is the quality of the standard toolchain. It comes with nearly everything you will ever need and makes development and reproducibility much much easier than the toolchains encountered with other languages.
Take the compiler error messages for example. Cargo is a breeze against the dependency complications when working with make. Or how many packages come with useful rustdoc pages on docs.rs.
Rich types, makes encoding complex business logic into the type system easier and makes building stuff easier
Even more important is the quality of the standard toolchain. It comes with nearly everything you will ever need and makes development and reproducibility much much easier than the toolchains encountered with other languages.
Take the compiler error messages for example. Cargo is a breeze against the dependency complications when working with make. Or how many packages come with useful rustdoc pages on docs.rs.