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Have you tried it? If you have - why do you think it shouldn't be as popular as it is? If not, perhaps in using it you will discover why it is popular.
by DC-3 8y ago
Have you tried it? If you have - why do you think it shouldn't be as popular as it is? If not, perhaps in using it you will discover why it is popular.
- majewsky 8y agoI sort of agree, but trying everything that's new and popular just doesn't scale. At some point, everyone needs to get on with their life.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoMaybe I'm getting old and cynical, but the fact that something is both new and popular makes me even more reluctant to try it. The commons seem to be really good at picking mediocre-at-best winners, and fad chasing is really common.
- Retra 8y agoYes, but "mediocre" is not measurable on an absolute scale. If you're trying to obsolete 50-year old technology, today's mediocre technology is probably good enough. Rust is a fairly conservative language. It doesn't really do anything novel, it mostly just synthesizes patterns that have existed for years. Hopefully Rust truly is mediocre (at least in hindsight). That would mean the things it is attempting to replace are seen for how primitive they truly are.
- GolDDranks 8y agoSorry for a moot comment but. This is so well said that I agree 100%, and couldn't say it any better.