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The folks I know who write rust code haven't mentioned this drama at all. I only dabble in it a little, but I'm guessing 99%+ of rust coders don't care and don'
by jemmyw 3y ago
The folks I know who write rust code haven't mentioned this drama at all. I only dabble in it a little, but I'm guessing 99%+ of rust coders don't care and don't attend conferences anyway. I like reading about the drama, and I was also quite interested in the introspection stuff the talk was going to be about. However, none of this is going to influence my use of Rust going forward. It's just not that important.
- bsaul 3y agoI think you’re mistaken. Rust as a language is still very niche, and it has a lot of work to do become mainstream. This work is going to be accomplished (or not) by people very involved in the project’s governance.
- pcthrowaway 3y agoDidn't it crack the top 20 languages last year? Maybe even top 15? It's supported in the Linux kernel now, I think we're way past the point where we can consider it niche
- bsaul 3y agoi think its current popularity (still not top 10) and its learning curve makes it still very vulnerable to another language integrating something close to what the borrow checker guarantees without the hassle.
- bobnamob 3y agoI don’t think this is true any more. From my perspective rust has hit critical mass adoption wise. The hyper scalers are all using it, it’s on the way into the m$ and Linux kernels, developer mindshare is just a matter of time at this point