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I'm with you on the broader sentiment that Rust isn't making nearly as many inroads many people think. But this example is silly. Do we say "FORTRAN is eating

I'm with you on the broader sentiment that Rust isn't making nearly as many inroads many people think. But this example is silly. Do we say "FORTRAN is eating R" because R uses BLAS/LAPACK/whatever via gfortran? Nah. A zillion languages use LLVM.

wolvesechoes 12d ago
But this is not a good analogy. Rust is being talked about explicitly as "better C++", with a huge and vocal group of online people going around and saying that the world will end if we don't rewrite everything in Rust, or that no new C++ project should be started today with Rust being available. Very few people, if any, put R against Fortran in this way, so the fact that Fortran libraries weren't rewritten in R doesn't contradict anyone's expectations.