I'm not the author of Rust, the Mozilla foundation is. I didn't plan on spending the entire thread justifying the creation of Rust i must say, but then i didn't plan on finding such a generally negative attitude towards a possible replacement for C or C++ as i did.
See i'm of the opinion that we should be making tons of new languages, exploring new concepts and ideas. One of them might stick.Don't make a new language unless the old language's complexity is severely hampering its progress
Edit:
Nothing against FORTRAN, just needed an example of an old language.As previously mentioned, people (myself, for one) still do use Fortran. Fortran didn't stop at the 77 standard, since then there have been many revisions to the standard: 1990, 1995, 2003, 2008, 2015 (coming soon).