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Thanks for that. It wasn't clear from the linked article that Rust was started before Go. The overall impression that I got from TFA was that Rust is another

Thanks for that. It wasn't clear from the linked article that Rust was started before Go. The overall impression that I got from TFA was that Rust is another instance of the garbage-collected system language fad.

ramchip 16y ago
What are the other instances? Besides Go, I don't recall many languages that fit the bill. There's D, but it's not very new and certainly not a fad language.
- steveklabnik 16y ago
  And it's only garbage collected if you want it to be. (My friends are making an exokernel in D)
konad 16y ago
I think the fact that Rust is older and yet Go has 1000s of active programmers is indicative of something. "Ship early, ship often" springs to mind. The Plan9 community has been working like that for years, almost every day an updated version is available (the distro cdrom is rebuilt every night) with bug fixes / improvements / new stuff.
- hga 16y ago
  Go is the product of people who's work automatically gets attention and is backed by Google. You still might be right, but Go is probably not a useful example.