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So why does that mean Rust will be abandoned in a few decades? Do you think there will be a trend "back" to using C or C++ for systems programming? I would bet
by staunton 3y ago
So why does that mean Rust will be abandoned in a few decades?
Do you think there will be a trend "back" to using C or C++ for systems programming? I would bet against it. I do believe, by the way, that C has stopped evolving (which is good) and that C++ should stop evolving as well.
Or do you think the replacement of old languages by new ones will accelerate? So in 30 years most systems programming will be done in a language that doesn't exist yet? Maybe not done at all in a "programming language" as we have today?
Or do you think Rust is clearly losing out to some other new languages for systems programming, such as Zig, and will never be popular enough in the first place to enter the "slowly dying legacy" regime?
- angiosperm 3y agoYou don't need a "trend back to using C++". C++ usage is still growing by leaps and bounds. The number of people picking up C++ for professional use, in any short interval -- used to be two weeks, now a bit longer -- is more than the total number who are coding Rust in production. That will be true for a long time. Rust could still catch on.
- steveklabnik 3y agoHow are you calculating the usage numbers here?