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A big company I worked at actually deprecated the last of its Rust code last year. Maintaining Rust was much more expensive than predicted, and hiring and/or me
by hitekker 2y ago
A big company I worked at actually deprecated the last of its Rust code last year. Maintaining Rust was much more expensive than predicted, and hiring and/or mentoring Rust Engineers proved even more expensive.
A simpler performant language like Zig, or a boring language + a different architecture would have been the better choice.
- tasuki 2y ago> A big company I worked at actually deprecated the last of its Rust code last year. What replaced Rust?
- hitekker 2y agoA newer JVM language, which admittedly came with its own share of problems.
- __float 2y agoIs Zig really a simpler language? It has a ton of features!
- scubbo 2y ago"Simple language" is often used as shorthand for "a language in which it is simple to express ideas", rather than "a language with few features". A language can, in fact, have many features and still be simple(-to-write-in); or, like Go, it can have so few features that it is complex-to-write-in.