> Given the increasingly stiff competition that Rust is facing, I suspect we'll see it end up like Haskell or D. Something usable is eventually produced, but it

> Given the increasingly stiff competition that Rust is facing, I suspect we'll see it end up like Haskell or D. Something usable is eventually produced, but it never sees the truly widespread adoption that it could have seen, had it been usable earlier on. I don't have much to say about D, but the history of Haskell implied by this sentence is hilariously wrong. Go watch Simon Peyton Jones' talk about the history of Haskell: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/history-of-haskell/index.htm http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers.... As well as being wonderfully entertaining, it explains the actual history of Haskell: it was designed to be a language with which various academic groups could do functional programming language research. The fact that Haskell has gradually grown more popular and now has mainstream appeal and some industrial users is quite a surprise to its creators.