More people at our company know Rust than Kotlin. It's used across multiple teams (from our game SDK, native encoder/capture pipeline, chat infra team for Erlang rust NIFs.) where as Kotlin is only used by our android team.
We are willing to adopt early technologies we think are promising, and contribute to or fund projects to continue to advance the ecosystem. Yes, this means the path less traveled, but in the case of rust (and in the past Elixir, and even React Native) we think the trade offs are worth it.
Also the tokio team uses Discord for their chat stuff, so it's nice to pop in to be able to ask for and offer help.
We are willing to adopt early technologies we think are promising, and contribute to or fund projects to continue to advance the ecosystem. Yes, this means the path less traveled, but in the case of rust (and in the past Elixir, and even React Native) we think the trade offs are worth it.
Also the tokio team uses Discord for their chat stuff, so it's nice to pop in to be able to ask for and offer help.