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This might be a sloght departure, sp forgive me, but what exactly is going on with Rust? Their user base is rabid and loyal as any as I've seen, and their evang

This might be a sloght departure, sp forgive me, but what exactly is going on with Rust? Their user base is rabid and loyal as any as I've seen, and their evangelists spout out content at a fair pace, but it doesn't seem to be gaining a huge amount of popularity (I may be wrong, but I've seen very little demand/job postings). Has it just not hit critical mass, is there not enough general utility or is the thought of leaving a language with a C in the name just too frightening?

pjmlp 9y ago
The actual Rust developers are not like that, they are quite friendly and help anyone that wanders into their forums. Google is already using Rust on a few ChromeOS and Fuchsia libraries. Firefox is getting more components ported from C++ into Rust. Microsoft adopted a regexp engine, written in Rust, for Visual Studio Code. So some victories, but the language still needs to mature in a few domains, UI, IDE, DB drivers, graphical debuggers, processors, and these things take time. It took C++ almost 20 years to steal some industries from C, while others still choose C and Assembly as their daily tools. It takes years to replace tooling, and many times the sucesses are not only technical, but are heavy influenced by social and political reasoning.
steveklabnik 9y ago
https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html is a non-exhaustive list of companies using Rust in production. Many don't explicitly hire Rust devs, but hire devs in general, as they won't just be working on Rust projects, but also on others. That's not always the case, but it's common. For example, Amazon recently posted a job listing saying that "Rust knowledge is a plus," that's because a small bit of it is in Rust, but you need to be familiar with other tech too.

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This might be a sloght departure, sp forgive me, but what exactly is going on with Rust? Their user base is rabid and loyal as any as I've seen, and their evang

by UnpossibleJim 9y ago

pjmlp 9y ago
The actual Rust developers are not like that, they are quite friendly and help anyone that wanders into their forums. Google is already using Rust on a few ChromeOS and Fuchsia libraries. Firefox is getting more components ported from C++ into Rust. Microsoft adopted a regexp engine, written in Rust, for Visual Studio Code. So some victories, but the language still needs to mature in a few domains, UI, IDE, DB drivers, graphical debuggers, processors, and these things take time. It took C++ almost 20 years to steal some industries from C, while others still choose C and Assembly as their daily tools. It takes years to replace tooling, and many times the sucesses are not only technical, but are heavy influenced by social and political reasoning.
steveklabnik 9y ago
https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html is a non-exhaustive list of companies using Rust in production. Many don't explicitly hire Rust devs, but hire devs in general, as they won't just be working on Rust projects, but also on others. That's not always the case, but it's common. For example, Amazon recently posted a job listing saying that "Rust knowledge is a plus," that's because a small bit of it is in Rust, but you need to be familiar with other tech too.