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> 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
by 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 agohttps://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.