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> I'd say, before Rust becomes really mainstream, we have to wait for the current generation of sysdevs to die. Why?

• k__ 10y ago
  Of old age I mean. It's like with everything. Most people simply do what they always did, most never reinvent themselves.
  • daenney 10y ago
    > Of old age I mean. Yeah I get that. I asked why they should die. Not how or by what means. > It's like with everything. Most people simply do what they always did, most never reinvent themselves. Based on? And note that we're not talking about "most people", we're talking about a very specific subset of people. Considering the changes in popularity of programming languages and the recent surges in adoption of Go and Swift, I'd say there's at least evidence to support people do change in this domain when something comes along that excites them or opens up new possibilities.
    • ssokolow 10y ago
      It's a pattern that's been well documented in the scientific community. You generally get a burst of innovation when enough of an older generation of scientists dies off for their ossified cognitive habits to stop holding back the more correct of the theories that have arisen in the mean time. (Don't ask me to cite it though. I don't have time to go digging back through the textbooks from my "scientific reasoning" course.)