There are wrappers for basically any C/C++ library you can think of. I found string support to be pretty great from the standard library (compared to C++), such as UTF-8 and string interpolation.
In terms of networking, I threw together a working console IRC client in about 60 lines of Rust (using standard library threads and TcpStreams). And I'm very much a Rust beginner. And Rust forced me to consider error handling in a way I wouldn't have otherwise.
I should also say that the community is unusually supportive: I've asked some questions on the IRC channel and got really helpful replies (and haven't noticed any of the snark that comes with a lot of IRC channels).
In terms of networking, I threw together a working console IRC client in about 60 lines of Rust (using standard library threads and TcpStreams). And I'm very much a Rust beginner. And Rust forced me to consider error handling in a way I wouldn't have otherwise.
I should also say that the community is unusually supportive: I've asked some questions on the IRC channel and got really helpful replies (and haven't noticed any of the snark that comes with a lot of IRC channels).