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> The facts that Rust is quite young, has no shipping hero project as a case study and there are basically no jobs available are adding fuel to the fire. That'
by Certhas 11y ago
> The facts that Rust is quite young, has no shipping hero project as a case study and there are basically no jobs available are adding fuel to the fire.
That's a bit of a misrepresentation though. Rust code is shipping in Firefox, and more importantly, Servo will have an alpha release in June.
The close integration between Rust and Servo development, as well as the rigorous pre 1.0 process also set it apart from other languages of comparable age.
- blub 11y agoI want to see a large-scale system written in Rust or a security-critical piece of infrastructure where it's demonstrable that defects were reduced. Of course, no one is obliged to fulfill my wish, it's just a criteria that I use to evaluate the maturity of a tool and that I think is very reasonable.
- ToppestDawg 11y agoDropBox has a 60k line project http://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/ http://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amaz...
- Certhas 11y agoI think a browser is a large-scale, security critical piece of infrastructure. Whether servo will truly have fewer leaks and security issues we'll have to see. They are also aiming for mor parallelism and therefore faster rendering....