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That’s all reasonable, I just feel like there’s a bit of a critical mass needed to really enter the mainstream as a “de facto standard” and I don’t know if the

That’s all reasonable, I just feel like there’s a bit of a critical mass needed to really enter the mainstream as a “de facto standard” and I don’t know if the activation energy on Rust is too high to reach that critical mass Rust to me is starting to feel like how Haskell was a decade ago, where it seemed like everybody was talking about it but serious adoption was always just on the horizon. But maybe my expectations are just too high. It seemed quite exciting at first to see everything being rewritten in Rust but I guess that’s not how the software world really works. Old projects are entrenched because they take many years of dev time to mature

nicoburns 5y ago
> Rust to me is starting to feel like how Haskell was a decade ago, where it seemed like everybody was talking about it but serious adoption was always just on the horizon. I think you might just not be aware of how widely adopted Rust already is. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Dropbox, Cloudflare to name just a few companies already have important projects in Rust. Curl is adding a Rust backend. The Linux Kernel hasn't committed yet, but groundwork has begun and it's looking like it's going to happen. Serious adoption has already happened. You're right that we won't see mass rewrites (although there have been some). That's just too big a project. But new projects are increasingly choosing Rust. It'll be a decade before Rust is the de facto standard if it happens. But personally I consider that quite likely.