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Rust

• chc 12y ago
  Is the idea of "mainstream" really that vague to people? Rust is the opposite of what I meant by that.
  • oscargrouch 12y ago
    while Swift announcement may have caused a lot of hype, im pretty sure its not mainstream by now.. So Rust just fits into your concept of "mainstream", thats why i've cited it :)
    • chc 12y ago
      I'll go ahead and quote myself: > [Swift is] the primary language for a huge platform. I don't know how much more mainstream you can get. This seems a bit like saying, "I'm not sure the newly elected US president is a significant figure in US politics." > For an idea of what I mean, pick a reasonably significant "target domain" for the language and consider how many major applications are written in that language. There is no platform on which Haskell or Common Lisp get used very much compared to other languages. Objective-C is clearly a dominant presence on iOS, C# rules Windows, Java has a lock on the enterprise, C and C++ are the bosses of systems programming, Haskell is…an interesting language whose motto is "avoid success at all costs." Rust does not fit into this concept of "mainstream." It is a forgone conclusion that many iOS 8 apps will be written in Swift. Rust has no niche yet.