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According to SlashData "size of programming language communities, Q1 2025": 28.0M JS+TS ... 5.6M Swift 5.1M Rust 5.0M Go They have measured Rust growing faster than Go over the yea…

That's very subjective, I find the Google style barely usable compared to OSM carto. No experience with Apple.

Rust does support adding deps using git urls, alternate repositories, filesystem paths, and even multiple sources for one dep. https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/specifying-…

D, Ada, and Modula don't have enough traction. Go's runtime can be a showstopper, especially for multi-language projects. C++ may be better than C, but many people feel that Rust i…

You'd need a few different ones, just like curl itself uses a lot of 3rd-party libraries to provide its full feature set. Some likely first choices would be hyper (http client/serv…

Why would you think that nobody has ever used Rust there ? Somebody has obviously put in the work to support that platform, rustc doesn't just blindly inherits the list of target t…

People often point this out, silently implying that Rust is not really supported/usable on the lower tiers and that therefore those platform should stick to C. But that's ignoring …

> Replacing parts of curl with Rust will not be possible. It's not just possible, it's been done. You can compile curl with rustls, you could for a time compile it with quiche, and…

You need to have someone, or a group of people, willing to write the code to implement support for modern tooling on their platform. Until then, old harder-to-secure codebases is w…

GPL doesn't force upstreaming, just making the sources available. Plenty of small vendors are not upstreaming their gcc patches. It's more a question of man-hours than of license.

Loongarch is at tier3 as well: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support/loo...

A Go version wouldn't improve anything upon the Rust version either. At this scale, Go's simplicity would be a hindrance more than a help, development velocity would suffer compare…

So ? The fact that rustc compiler uses a component written in C++ doesn't mean that even pure Rust projects have a C++ dependency. Follow any language's bootstrap chain and you'll …

On single C file, 159 lines compared to 83000 lines of Rust. It's used to generate a cert for unittests, not sure why that's not done in Rust.

Having C or C++ somewhere in the lower levels of your stack doesn't make them the primary language for your domain. Other wise CPU microcode would be the primary language of every …

Yes, public github repos, stackoverflow survey respondents, devjobscanner offers, google searches, etc are all skewed in some way. It's very hard to qualify the effect of those bia…

Different metrics tell a different story. For example GitHub pull requests [1] are C++: 2.60%, Rust: 2.09%, C: 1.43%, with a clear trend showing Rust ahead of C++ next year. Or you…

SWC (by the same author as this tentative tsc port) is a part of more and more people's typescript toolchain, and is written in Rust. Having all your ecosystem in a single language…

> Afaict, none of them requires multiple mutable references to the same objects They ask to store objects ("turtles") into a single Vec. Two turtles from that Vec can breed to crea…

There are a lot of Rust GC approaches here, makes me wonder why the study author didn't use one (or more) of the existing sound GCs. Remove a glaring flaw of the study, and spend l…

Sorry, bad mischaracterisation on my part, annoyingly it's too late to edit my post. Looking at the Ada docs again, it considers manual deallocation an unsafe operation and suggest…

He (and other prominent kernel developers) has manifested his interest many times, but is taking a strict "wait and see" approach (as you would expect from any big project manager)…

The coreutils rewrite is essentially a hobby project, which nobody is going to switch to until it can boast 100% compatibility. So of course it's slow coming, it's not a fair compa…

Userland is worth fighting for too. https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/authorization.png But as bawolff said, the main issue is moving towards safer tech. If Ada had good enough momentum…

A lot of those guarantees are only available in the alloc-free subset of Ada, which make them much less attractive. The devil is in the details, making Ada guarantees not always be…