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> Rust is still a research language. It's not. Rust is being used for production systems by several companies, so it hardly counts as a "research language". >
by adwn 7y ago
> Rust is still a research language.
It's not. Rust is being used for production systems by several companies, so it hardly counts as a "research language".
> Anyone trying to fix/debug things in the kernel now has to learn Rust.
Wrong again. If a driver for some SD card reader is written in Rust, then you won't come in contact with this if you're working on the IPv6 subsystem.
- masklinn 7y ago> It's not. Rust is being used for production systems by several companies, so it hardly counts as a "research language". I don't know that Rust has ever been a research language in the first place, maybe they mean "in development", as in pre-stability?
- fulafel 7y agoThere's some history in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/graydon_pub/status/958192076209897472 https://twitter.com/graydon_pub/status/958192076209897472 The 2005-ish "one man side project" and "searching for its niche" phases do sound researchy. Interesting quote: "Funny enough, the zero cost obsession really wasn't me. I was ok paying some runtime costs. We just got overrun by C++ folks :P"