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I feel like Nim is a much closer comparison than Rust. All three could be described as "grassroots projects on a holy mission to replace C and/or C++," but Nim
by ryukoposting 5y ago
I feel like Nim is a much closer comparison than Rust. All three could be described as "grassroots projects on a holy mission to replace C and/or C++," but Nim and Zig are more similar in terms of operating budget/team size/adoption rate.
I may be a bit biased, but many of the problems mentioned in the post are the sorts of things I haven't dealt with in Nim for probably 2 years. Nim's error messages are still hit-or-miss and {.gcsafe.} still haunts me in my dreams, but the stdlib and language documents are great, and most of the annoying gotchas have been fixed.
- octoberfranklin 5y agoRust isn't on a holy mission; it's simply the only memory-safe language without a garbage collector. It's really that simple. There is no international conspiracy behind Rust's popularity. It's the only thing that can do what it does in that respect.
- pjmlp 5y agoDepends, I consider that Rust might succeed where Modula-2, Object Pascal and Ada failed, for anything else other than being a new generation of developers having a go at it.