jQuery was undermined not because it wasn't a good idea or it was poorly designed, but because it matured early on and Javascript evolved rapidly enough that th

jQuery was undermined not because it wasn't a good idea or it was poorly designed, but because it matured early on and Javascript evolved rapidly enough that the technical premises it was built on no longer applied. A more concrete example of this is Windows and Java's use of UCS-2 as their character type. That was a forward thinking move which then became a painful legacy issue when Unicode changed. That's inevitably going to happen to Rust to some extent, but it's targetting a realm that is far slower to evolve and it seems like they are very mindful of history and theory.