It’s certainly getting some use in industry, yes. There are also some efforts to teach it in higher ed, first as more of an elective and then maybe replacing C/C++ in the intro courses. However, I think it will take a while to gain traction. Take the situation on my team. I would love to use Rust for a project, but that’s reliant on someone else learning Rust.

On the academic side of things, we have a professor involved with Rust Edu. He’s been teaching a Rust Programming course for a few years now, but he’s looking down the road a few years. The instructor who teaches the intro classes will retire eventually, so that would be a natural transition point. It’s these human and institutional factors that play a larger role at this point.