I'm on my way to learn something new in 2018 and currently looking at Rust. I know Mozilla uses it for some parts of Firefox but I haven't seen any other projects outside of the Firefox ecosystem that uses Rust heavily (maybe I didn't look up good enough?)
So, my question is simple - what's Rust good for?
The Rust book has a great summary for you:
It is suitable for people writing:
Hope that helps!