Why use Rust? A simple Regex parser example

In this post I show why I would chose Rust over other languages for a project in present date. I do this by using a library for parsing dates as example, exposing strong points of Rust in a real example instead of speaking abstractly. Before starting let me state the problem properly: We want to parse strings into dates. The strings will be assumed to be a list of data elements separated by spaces. No special token order is assumed, the parser has the freedom to guess the meaning of a token based on the pre