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> How do you know the engine won't blow up 5 laps into the race? You objectively can't know, because the only way to find out is to perform extensive testing ov
by nicoburns 4y ago
> How do you know the engine won't blow up 5 laps into the race? You objectively can't know, because the only way to find out is to perform extensive testing over a long period of time
Well it's been 6 years since Rust 1.0 was released. And it's had extensive adoption over that time period, including in projects used in vast numbers of devices and services. Firefox runs on Rust, Dropbox runs on Rust, AWS and Cloudflare are both using Rust for core services. Android is shipping Rust. Microsoft is looking at adopting it in Windows. What would count as a long time for you?
- optymizer 4y agoIf I look at Perl, I'd say about 25 years. People were equally excited about it at the time. It took a few decades for everyone to agree it's a net negative to use it in a project, even though it's still very good at what it does.