That wasn't my intention. I didn't decide to like Rust before trying it, I tried it to see if I liked it. I wrote up what I've learned so far. Probably some day this post will seem naive to me, but for now it's the best I could manage.

Fair - if I were to write up what I'd want from a new systems language it would be: statically typed with some sort of generics capability, natively compiled, not GC'd (I like the idea of ObjC's ARC, though I can't say I've used it), and with first-class support for concurrent or parallel programming - this also sounds an awful lot like Rust, and I don't think I was particularly aiming for it, it's just got a good set of features and design goals for a modern systems language.