Thanks neonsunset -- so there is this relativistic argument to be made in favor of Rust.

Previously, I'd been involved in writing up samples of a CLI tool in each of Golang, Ruby, Haskell, C++, Python, Java, Clojure. From there we would select one language ecosystem to marry ourselves to and move forward. Every single one left us wanting in terms of either team capability/emotional levels, language expressiveness, distribution, speed, tooling, package management, etc. And I learned here that Rust seems to have each of these down pat to satisfactory degrees.

Next time I'm faced with birthing yet another CLI tool, I thinks I'm gonna try Rust first.