I just got done cowboy coding 2500 lines of unchecked input validation code in Rust. While I didn’t particularly enjoy writing Rust — the syntax has taken some

I just got done cowboy coding 2500 lines of unchecked input validation code in Rust. While I didn’t particularly enjoy writing Rust — the syntax has taken some getting used to — I also don’t expect to enjoy writing anything in the domain of C or C++. What I did enjoy was correcting the hundreds of errors which had accumulated over the course of several days without checking the code at all, thanks in large part to rust-analyzer and VSCode. On the cmdline, rustc displays gorgeous error messages — easily the best compiler error messages I’ve seen from any programming language — and Cargo is a dependency manager and build tool without equal. The Rust ecosystem in general is already quite large. Although I’m a neophyte at coding Rust, I haven’t run into an error message yet that StackOverflow or Reddit didn’t end up resolving. On paper, Rust saves companies money by eliminating the memory safety bugs which would otherwise show up in C/C++ code. At the same time, Rust’s developer tooling ends up being so ergonomic to work with, and the language sufficiently expressive and flexible, that I can see Rust competing in areas beyond those reserved for C/C++. IMO Rust is basically OCaml for the 21st century. My bet is on Rust usurping C/C++, and I expect Rust’s rise will be nothing short of meteoric over the coming years. The involvement of Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the Rust Foundation bodes particularly well for this, as do informal surveys of developers which consistently show tremendous grassroots enthusiasm for the language. Just my 2c: but bet on Rust, bet heavily on Rust, and bet on Rust immediately, without delay.