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Rust is a really interesting language, the reason I decided not to pursue it further is the community, especially the maintainers (I hope that's the right word for it).
It's full of drama and politics (including real world political stances), sometimes they even incuded them in their release notes.
I wasn't too invested in these aspects, but I don't want to take my time to master something that's one drama away from being abandoned or (more likely) fractured.
Programming languages should be tools to get a job done, not to push political points, even if I happen to agree with most of them.
C++ has a tremendous amount of drama.
I think it's the nature of the beast. Software devs are an opinionated bunch. You need to be able to separate the work from the authors.
As far as whether it's risky, Rust has been adopted by a number of companies and projects that have been rock solid for decades.
Your worry seems largely unfounded to me.