I once read an interview with Guido van Rossum where he was asked what the point in time was when he realized that Python took off. He said, never, it just slowly but continuously grew.
This stuck with me. I hope we can say the same thing about Rust 10, 20 or 30 years from now.
Python was my first language and that is precisely how it felt. I would be at a convention or conference and mention python and it seemed like people didn't care, had a negative opinion or just didn't use it. It was treated as something only semi-programmers did, like people whose job wasn't actually programming, business analysts or scientists.
Then one day python was suddenly top of the charts, probably post python 3 (old timers hated it but it really improved ergonomics) but not immediately so. Rather later on when they fixed the performance loss from 2->3 (which looking back as a primarily Rust coder now, was a hilarious argument that community had internally because even my worst, most quickly cobbled together rust code beats some of my best python code at the same task performance wise).
This stuck with me. I hope we can say the same thing about Rust 10, 20 or 30 years from now.