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It's a new language, and it's in a smaller niche than say, Node. Golang was created within Google in 2007, went public in 2009, and has only gotten widespread

It's a new language, and it's in a smaller niche than say, Node. Golang was created within Google in 2007, went public in 2009, and has only gotten widespread traction over the last couple of years.[1][2] 1 http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/go/ http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/go/ 2 http://githut.info http://githut.info Rust was created within a nonprofit in 2009, with a first pre-alpha release in 2012, so let's give it a break on popularity contests for a few years yet. ;)

steveklabnik 10y ago
You should note that githut is data from 2014. While it's true that it was started then, it's also important that a stable release wasn't until 2015, so in some senses, that's also where the clock towards becoming popular starts; very few people are willing to put up with what we were doing pre-1.0, and for good reason!
- JoshTriplett 10y ago
  > While it's true that it was started then, it's also important that a stable release wasn't until 2015, so in some senses, that's also where the clock towards becoming popular starts; very few people are willing to put up with what we were doing pre-1.0, and for good reason! I first started looking at Rust before 1.0, but the runtime and the many different pointer types/sigils drove me off. I came back in the lead-up to 1.0, and saw how much the language had improved and simplified, and started getting into it at that point.
logingone 10y ago
I can't see what the previous poster's flagged comment says, but I gather it's pro-go anti-rust. I work at a large organisation which is switching to Go - I don't like what I'm seeing, and as a result have spent the last year gradually switching to Rust. Popularity can be a good thing, and it can also be the death of a thing. I thoroughly enjoyed Go for a few years, but I'm afraid the signal to noise ratio looks like it's going to plummet.
- steveklabnik 10y ago
  It was purely anti-rust, no Go involved.
  - ftact 10y ago
    Yeah go is even more shit than rust. Tenfold, tbh

steveklabnik 10y ago

You should note that githut is data from 2014. While it's true that it was started then, it's also important that a stable release wasn't until 2015, so in some senses, that's also where the clock towards becoming popular starts; very few people are willing to put up with what we were doing pre-1.0, and for good reason!

JoshTriplett 10y ago
> While it's true that it was started then, it's also important that a stable release wasn't until 2015, so in some senses, that's also where the clock towards becoming popular starts; very few people are willing to put up with what we were doing pre-1.0, and for good reason! I first started looking at Rust before 1.0, but the runtime and the many different pointer types/sigils drove me off. I came back in the lead-up to 1.0, and saw how much the language had improved and simplified, and started getting into it at that point.

logingone 10y ago

I can't see what the previous poster's flagged comment says, but I gather it's pro-go anti-rust. I work at a large organisation which is switching to Go - I don't like what I'm seeing, and as a result have spent the last year gradually switching to Rust. Popularity can be a good thing, and it can also be the death of a thing. I thoroughly enjoyed Go for a few years, but I'm afraid the signal to noise ratio looks like it's going to plummet.

steveklabnik 10y ago
It was purely anti-rust, no Go involved.
- ftact 10y ago
  Yeah go is even more shit than rust. Tenfold, tbh