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It is not rapidly and widely accepted. It is pushed by a small but very vocal minority for all the wrong reasons. When you have to prove your intelligence leve
by sprash 4y ago
It is not rapidly and widely accepted. It is pushed by a small but very vocal minority for all the wrong reasons.
When you have to prove your intelligence level (or rather "street cred") in a competitive market you have to show that you can learn the newest complicated things quickly. Rust is pure cryptonite in such a world.
- azangru 4y agoCryptonite? I am... not sure it means what you think it means.
- sprash 4y agoI only know this word from context. And it is actually written with "k". So what does it mean? (Context/my reasoning: If you have to prove that you are a smart programmer you can't stay away from learning Rust. Hence it is kryptonite.)
- jamincan 4y agoYou're looking for something like honey that no one can resist - kryptonite is Superman's weakness; he avoids it at all costs.
- azangru 4y agoKryptonite isn't something you can't stay away from. It is something that makes you weak. As it did to Superman in the movie. An Achilles' heel. Merriam-Webster's definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kryptonite https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kryptonite
- nicoburns 4y ago> It is not rapidly and widely accepted. It has been adopted by most large tech companies and several high profile open source projects within ~5 years of it's stable release. It certainly has been rapidly and widely accepted. For important projects too: Google is using it in Android, Microsoft is using it in Windows, Amazon is using it for Lambda, Meta is using it for their source control tool, Dropbox is using for their storage backend AND in their client apps, Cloudflare is using it for their core proxy, etc.
- officialchicken 4y agoAnd linux itself is in the process of adding support in the kernel.