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Good to see some concrete evidence comparing memory unsafe languages to memory safe languages in an existing product. I just watched the Lex Fridman Guido Van R

Good to see some concrete evidence comparing memory unsafe languages to memory safe languages in an existing product. I just watched the Lex Fridman Guido Van Rossum episode and Rust vs C/C++ appears to be mirroring the trajectory Perl vs Python took in the ML/Bioinformatics space. Only time will tell whether Rust will reach the critical mass necessary to displace C/C++ in most new low level projects, but it appears clear to me that Memory Safe Languages which ever they may be are the future. I don't need to program in an environment where a systems programming language is required, so for me a languages debugability and introspective capabilities are the most important. So far I think Pharo hits the sweet spot for me, but it still has a long way to go documentation wise before I think it will see any sort of adoption. I'm rooting for it though.

est31 4y ago
> Only time will tell whether Rust will reach the critical mass necessary to displace C/C++ in most new low level projects As someone who has been in the Rust community since a couple of months after 1.0, I only see growth, year after year. At the start the community was small. Nowadays even the OSS part of it, which is a subset of the total community, is so big you can't have an overview of it any more. Even for the Rust project itself it's hard to have an overview over everything that's happening (but it's still possible to some degree).
- pornel 4y ago
  https://lib.rs/stats https://lib.rs/stats crates.io downloads keep growing exponentially, although recently growth rate dipped from 2× to 1.9× (not sure if that's a trend or noise). Ratio of weekday to weekend downloads keeps going up, so presumably professional adoption of Rust keeps growing.