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Chicken and egg. Python wasn't marketable before 2005-ish, either. I hope you didn't bother learning that silly niche language.

• cambalache 6y ago
  Python was a top-10 language easily in 2005-ish. Nowadays Rust is only as half as popular as Go, a language that isnt even in the top 10. Rust will go the way of Scala, Haskell or Erlang, interesting but niche.
  • ragnese 6y ago
    The exact year isn't really the point... Maybe it was 2000. The point is that Python existed all through the 90s and was not very popular for a long time. Rust has only been passed 1.0 for five years and it's already gotten a ton of attention, even from big players.
    • cambalache 6y ago
      > The exact year isn't really the point.. So what's the point? Python was created in 1991, in 2000 was more popular than Rust is today. Rust was created in 2010, so it is older and in a world where it has to compete with more languages. Reality is different of what you wish to be true.
      • galfarragem 6y ago
        Some dates for reference: Golang (2009), Rust (2010), Kotlin (2011), Typescript (2012)
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