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Comparing a young language like rust to much older popular languages is not a useful comparison. I'd say given Rust's age it's popular, and since it is the fir
by carlmr 7y ago
Comparing a young language like rust to much older popular languages is not a useful comparison.
I'd say given Rust's age it's popular, and since it is the first contender for a lot of spaces where no other languages have made a serious bid in a while (embedded and real-time systems with higher safety guarantees haven't seen much love since ADA).
It will probably not supplant easy super popular languages like python. But I believe it might find it's niche. A lot of other languages don't have such a USP.
- asdkhadsj 7y ago> It will probably not supplant easy super popular languages like python. But I believe it might find it's niche. Yea, I definitely don't think it'll ever be as hugely mainstream as "easy" languages - take Go for instance, but it has huge potential and I'm a big fan of the language (I've switched entirely to it). It may be possible that another language can come up with a more elegant solution for the memory safety features of Rust, but until that happens I think Rust will gain a lot of ground. It just won't be the language people turn to unless they have a use case explicitly for Rust (or rather, something that disqualifies Go/Python/etc to them).