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Rust has nothing new (even the lifetime stuff is copied) really. It just marketed itself really well. It got a huge number of migrants from JS/TS ecosystem, and

• zozbot234 8mo ago
  > Rust has nothing new (even the lifetime stuff is copied) really. Rust has nothing new by academic standards, and this is an explicit goal of the project. (And that's why it has yet to support e.g. Haskell-like higher-kinded types; or dependent types for compile-time programming: the interaction with its low-level featureset is very much an open question.) It's incredibly novel as a production language, of course.
• pjerem 8mo ago
  It has nothing new but they did a good job at cherry picking what what nice in other languages. Which makes it an interesting language to learn actually. I even feel like Rust can even be a superb first language to learn for a new programmer : that’s a journey for sure but it would expose you to most of the modern programming concepts.
• AlotOfReading 8mo ago
  Saying it has nothing new seems like an uncharitable take. Yes, it has influences (that rust docs dedicate a page to [0]), but PL theory has such a rich body of literature that you can make a similar claim about virtually any language. It's the whole package that matters, and I don't think there's anything "rust but earlier" to point to there. Certainly isn't Ada. [0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html
• dcminter 8mo ago
  > [Rust is] a good language [...] but also a huge pita to work with This is practically the elevator pitch of the language :) and I speak as one who likes it a lot!