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My guess is Rust is going to experience its first test in the next two years, where the general people will see what it's really good for, and what's it not, be
by bsaul 4y ago
My guess is Rust is going to experience its first test in the next two years, where the general people will see what it's really good for, and what's it not, because it won't be the "new hot thing" anymore.
Only then we will know if it has chance of really becoming widely used as a general purpose PL.
- crispinb 4y agoIf by 'general purpose PL' you mean one used to write mainstream GUI apps, I nearly agree though I'd bet against Rust on that score. If however you mean one used across a wide variety of industries, software types, and hardware, I think its future is already assured there. My own guess is that Rust will become quite ubiquitous for the performant and stable core of many software systems, with the interactive levels handled by other languages.