> Rust is too complex and clunky to ever gain widespread acceptance outside its niches. Rust is a systems programming language (it didn't start out that way bu

> Rust is too complex and clunky to ever gain widespread acceptance outside its niches. Rust is a systems programming language (it didn't start out that way but is where it pivoted to) so I think we agree on that niche. Most people don't work on problems that Rust would help with, but the places it's suited for is seeing more Rust adoption, not less and those niches are quite large. For example, Linux kernel, Android, Windows kernel, Chrome, etc etc. Basically any C/C++ codebase, if it really needs to be C/C++, will get migrated and there's a metric fuckton of such code. There's probably more JS, Java, Python, Ruby, etc but those programs don't need to be migrated to Rust unless they need more performance/multithreading and can benefit from Rust in that way. Rust not making sense for JS, Java, Python, Ruby, etc coders does not make it a failure or a valid claim that it doesn't have "widespread acceptance" - after all those other languages also don't see widespread acceptance outside their niches.