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> ... and the same could be said about Rust, only with Rust we can already see that it suffers from relatively low adoption at a relatively advanced age. What
by asa400 11mo ago
> ... and the same could be said about Rust, only with Rust we can already see that it suffers from relatively low adoption at a relatively advanced age.
What are we measuring? Lines of code? Number of programmers employed? Number of new applications started?
Rust is in: Linux, Windows, Azure, all over AWS, Amazon's Prime video, Cloudflare's proxy, Firefox, Python's `cryptography` package, Zed editor. This is just the sample I know of.
Is this low adoption?
- pron 11mo ago> What are we measuring? Lines of code? Number of programmers employed? Number of new applications started? They're correlated, but number of programmers employed is something that's relatively easy to measure. > Is this low adoption? For a language this old? Yes. That people talk so much about specific projects that use Rust only underlines that: Rust is now as old as Java was when JDK 6 came out; older than PHP was when PHP 5 came out or Facebook was launched; older than C++ was when Windows NT came out.