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* ALT n ~ = ñ
It's not limited to diacritics; you can type ligatures (ALT ae = æ), extended characters (ALT [/] = ), I assume the majority of UTF (ALT #G = 𝄞) and so on. And yes, even emoji (ALT ALT alembic = )
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If you consider GitHub to be a reasonable metric of industry practice in general, then judging by these charts [https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2021/1], I would say that going mainstream in a couple years is not very likely at all. Tiobe [https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/] paints a similar picture. The number of Rust-specific jobs advertisements also don't seem to suggest a coming wave that employers are trying to get ahead of[https://www.dice.com/jobs?q=rust&countryCode=US&radius=30&ra...]. I'm not aware of any real success stories with the language, either, unlike Go and the CNCF ecosystem that's the latest fashion right now. There are rewrites of GNU coreutils (ripgrep, bat), a couple components in already commercially successful software (Dropbox, Discord), a couple side-projects within large companies (fuschia OS, FirecrackerVM) and I guess terminal emulators are a big focus. You could say the same of Haskell, which is very cool, but is not going to be an industry standard in the foreseeable future.
One way to think about it is that the big wave of new languages like Go, Rust, Elixir and Kotlin all sprang up around 2010. At that time, C99, C++03, Java 6 or C#2 were probably what you would have been using (honorable mentions to Python 2.7, PHP 5, and Ruby 1.8). The new languages were perceived solutions to the limitations of the mainstream languages; however, today, very many of the new features and the old points of frustration have already been addressed within these same 'boring' mainstream languages. Java 16, C# 8, and C++20 are vastly improved and have (or will soon have [check out Loom for Java!]) almost all the conveniences the new-wave offered without having to throw old programs in the bin and reimplement entire ecosystems. C++ and Rust are also so similar in terms of semantics and memory model, that I really don't see the value proposition of walking away from huge, mature projects like Qt for academically interesting type algebra. There have been some ambitious fresh-takes on things like ECS-based game engines in Rust, but I'm not aware of impending migration to these tools.
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