> I don’t know about your later claim. To my shallow knowledge of Rust, it doesn’t try to compete on the same segment as Java. I don't think the origin lame wa

> I don’t know about your later claim. To my shallow knowledge of Rust, it doesn’t try to compete on the same segment as Java. I don't think the origin lame was that it would compete for the same segment, but that it would reach the same level of ubiquity. It could do that by opening up a new non-existent segment, eg smart contracts on the block chain. Or it could take a little from multiple domains.