There will be no winner. There will be winners. Rust has a niche, and it is a big one, where a lot of C++ used to be. If you cannot afford GC pauses (all sor

There will be no winner. There will be winners. Rust has a niche, and it is a big one, where a lot of C++ used to be. If you cannot afford GC pauses (all sorts of servers) and need fine control, rust could very well be for you. It will win in that space. System programming is not a "ever-shrinking percentage of the software ecosystem". It is a constant percentage. As we develop systems we need languages like Rust.