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Out of curiousity, what do you feel Rust would need to reach maturity?
by jamincan 5y ago
Out of curiousity, what do you feel Rust would need to reach maturity?
- eggy 5y agoIt needs more resources coming from practitioners rather than early adopters or software engineers; it needs more time to mature, and I think it will. It is just not there for me yet, and I am no longer a spring chicken. The SPARK book I cited is an excellent book written by end users with sufficient background on the subject matter and a pretty cool real world application (Cubesats), rather than by software engineers or developers. I bought another great book, "Analysable Real Time Systems: Programmed in Ada" by Alan Burns and Andy Wellings. I am learning so much from these two books. I've played with over 20 PLs in my life, and syntax is not important as it once was, although I love APL's symbols! But even in APL it is the sophistication and expressivity of the language that amazes me whenever I play with it. Verifiable software, high-integrity software, and the like are best taught by being able to study or use working and proven applications. The uptake of Rust is impressive, so all of this is starting to happen, and maturity just means anything beyond its nascence with some long term applications under its belt, not a hard date or time period.