> Time will tell Agree time will tell at present Rust is like other niche systems programming language competing with others like Nim and Zig bit more popular

> Time will tell Agree time will tell at present Rust is like other niche systems programming language competing with others like Nim and Zig bit more popular due to Firefox being popular. Nowhere close to Go or Swift, may be in 5 years might have something substantial by Amazon and Microsoft available in open source. > Go has much bigger backing Go is popular because it’s easy, simple, performant with opinionated design and similar to Python controlled heavily by its creator. It gets the job done and it’s syntax can fit in brain, without fighting the language itself. It has very good standard library. It is adopted more outside of Google than inside. Simplicity is easier said than done and Go language did it quite well. It’s like Apple devices and OS beautiful and simple, which works but some just hate it. Rust doesn’t aim to be simple and easy, as it makes people in Rust community feel superior to other programmers by virtue of showing it as complex and difficult. You can see example of this in this thread any comments critical of Rust pointing its shortcomings is downvoted because it’s difficult to digest how the best and safe language for systems programming can have any shortcomings. I don’t mind working in Rust (indeed tried some simple examples and didn’t find any feature special what I can’t do in other languages including safety). I also learned Haskell (which is more complex than Rust) and Lisp (like it more because of its simplicity).