It's hard to follow this author's arguments because so many of them are simply wrong and off base. I've used Rust since 1.0 stable release, I have yet to write

It's hard to follow this author's arguments because so many of them are simply wrong and off base. I've used Rust since 1.0 stable release, I have yet to write a piece of unsafe code. Almost all of my code has run at speeds similar to C/C++. If something in Rust is slow, then it is a bug. Of which the Rust contributors are very good at getting rid of. The new MIR stuff will change a lot. This guy also makes many blunt assumptions on what other programmers will do. He says no sane programmer will write a webserver/service in Rust. Uhhh.. yes they will and do. When they need to benefits that the Rust lang comes with, they will/do already. This guy clearly doesn't like Rust, which is fine. Most programmers have a language they really dislike that is popular. Nothing wrong with that. As for "replacing" C/C++, no, in the near future it won't It may never. But the fact of the matter is old programmers will....grow older, retire and be gone. Young programmers just getting started in their career/education will look at the ecosystem of tools available to them and make their own choices on what to use. Which in turn has the potential to make C/C++ go the way of COBAL. Rust isn't the only language either. Many new languages will arise in the next few decades that will completely displace some of the most popular languages now. That's how it is. I frankly do no see C++ being used for new programs 20 years from now. Unless it is a new subset of C++ that does not resemble anything like C++ today...which for that matter...is a new language. Sure, C/C++ programs will be around for at least a few decades. But will anyone new program in them? Highly doubtful. Rust is just one of the first displacing languages. And this is not a bad thing. We SHOULD rewrite many of the things that we heavily rely on. They have to evolve and not be tied down to something written decades past. System kernels will be re-written. Linux itself, eventually, will effectively be re-written. (Yes...it will take a while, may be something else, not called Linux...Redox perhaps?) If it were up to this author, all language developers would only be working to make C++/C faster/safer.(The author calling C++ "safe" is laughable, he even counters his own argument elsewhere in the article about humans being the weak point. ) No. We have to reject that. Just as Henry Ford said, "If I asked people what they wanted, they would say 'faster horses'".