* zero-cost abstractions

 * move semantics

 * guaranteed memory safety

 * threads without data races

 * trait-based generics

 * pattern matching

 * type inference

 * minimal runtime

 * efficient C bindings

Since you asked for blog posts, and I already read many of them that didn't share my concerns, here is my take.

What I did in 2017 (and also a bit in 2018)

In 2017, I wrote some Rust code for a job listing. My job was to create a backbone for an Android app, and since it was a computationally heavy backend, and the communication with the frontend was through https, I chose Rust for the job. It went fairly well.

Additionally, I'm using Rust for DNA processing, stuff like building De Bruijn graphs, sequence alignment, etc.

My wishes for 2018

Reducing panics

On the job, I wrote something resembling this pattern:

for data in rx.into_iter() {
    let validated_data = valid