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Is it an ideology or is it just a growing consensus that Rust is really as good as everyone says it is? While I can see how it might look ideological, it doesn’
by techdragon 6y ago
Is it an ideology or is it just a growing consensus that Rust is really as good as everyone says it is? While I can see how it might look ideological, it doesn’t “feel” ideological to me at least. It feels like a few years ago we hit critical mass and crossed the point where enough people feel like Rust is never going away, that people began to really rely on it, and once they showed this work to other people those people liked what they saw and decided to give it a try and Rust is growing organically on the back of “doing the right things” and just generally being “a good language” for so many more things than people are used to.
- ansible 6y agoYep. I think Bryan Cantrill's talk from 2018 encapsulates things pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFM8vw3pbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFM8vw3pbU Bryan is a hardcore C guy, and can write safe and reliable C code. But he has reached the limits of what C can offer in terms of composability and abstraction. Like Linus, he wants and needs the kind of high performance and dependable behavior for systems programming that isn't possible with a garbage-collected language.
- ssokolow 6y agoHe also wrote a couple of blog posts called "Falling in love with Rust" and "Rust after the honeymoon": http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/18/falling-in-love-with-rust/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/18/falling-in-love-with-... http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2020/10/11/rust-after-the-honeymoon/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2020/10/11/rust-after-the-honeym...
- selfhoster11 6y agoThis is exactly my perception too.