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> the wildcard in all of this is WASM. On a related note, Embark Studios who I mentioned above, just announced they've joined the Bytecode Alliance, an WebAsse

> the wildcard in all of this is WASM. On a related note, Embark Studios who I mentioned above, just announced they've joined the Bytecode Alliance, an WebAssembly-focused non-profit: https://twitter.com/repi/status/1387393289847025669 https://twitter.com/repi/status/1387393289847025669 The announcement mentioned the use of WASM to help build "...a future of software & creative game worlds that are not limited walled gardens where only we / the devs can add new capabilities or features, want to build an open ecosystem of interconnected software & game components that anyone can use & create with". Essentially, Rust+WASM as a future for player-driven modding/customisation. This is an area I've been exploring in my "WebAssembly Calling Card" project which enables people to create cross-platform personalized dynamic image avatars implemented in any language which can compile to WASM: https://wacc.rancidbacon.com https://wacc.rancidbacon.com I've integrated WACC with the Godot game engine, Rust GUI viewers and the browser--they all use the same avatar ".wasm" file (with examples currently written in C & Rust).

bsder 5y ago
Neat! I'm happy to see all of this, but, again, the question was about career in/for 10 years. And Rust just isn't going to be that. Rust is, for example, far behind in terms of market penetration where Python was at a comparable age. This is unsurprising. First, Rust is nowhere near as broad spectrum as Python--so it's domain of applicability is much more constrained. Second, Rust is coming into a full ecosystem that Python didn't have to contend with. Python was basically the only respectable person at the scripting language job interview in the late 1990s--Tcl and Perl both decided to start huffing glue in the middle of the DotBomb era while Sun tried to jam Java everywhere it didn't belong and left a lot of greenfield areas to Python. Rust doesn't have the "advantage" of that level of incompetence in its competitors/alternatives. And, while I'm fully aware that Python and Rust aren't really in the same space, I simply chose Python because it's one of the only popular languages that is relatively "new" (if you can call something from somewhere in 1989-1994 "new") and didn't come upon its popularity as a mandated parasite attached to a much bigger host (looking at you: Swift/C#/Javascript).

bsder 5y ago

Neat! I'm happy to see all of this, but, again, the question was about career in/for 10 years. And Rust just isn't going to be that. Rust is, for example, far behind in terms of market penetration where Python was at a comparable age. This is unsurprising. First, Rust is nowhere near as broad spectrum as Python--so it's domain of applicability is much more constrained. Second, Rust is coming into a full ecosystem that Python didn't have to contend with. Python was basically the only respectable person at the scripting language job interview in the late 1990s--Tcl and Perl both decided to start huffing glue in the middle of the DotBomb era while Sun tried to jam Java everywhere it didn't belong and left a lot of greenfield areas to Python. Rust doesn't have the "advantage" of that level of incompetence in its competitors/alternatives. And, while I'm fully aware that Python and Rust aren't really in the same space, I simply chose Python because it's one of the only popular languages that is relatively "new" (if you can call something from somewhere in 1989-1994 "new") and didn't come upon its popularity as a mandated parasite attached to a much bigger host (looking at you: Swift/C#/Javascript).