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I'd say, before Rust becomes really mainstream, we have to wait for the current generation of sysdevs to die.
But I guess till this is the case, there will be new languages invented that may be better than Rust.
On the other hand, most new companies don't hire old devs, so maybe IoT will give rise to new companies and young sysdevs all using Rust before the old generation is gone...
I think it has a fair chance (Go is a "systems" language and grew very quickly). I also believe you'll see it pop up in unikernels as well. Why, you ask? Because there's always 1 person that starts a project that gets traction. I don't see it growing and replacing C++ though. I don't think there's much incentive post C++11 to really consider porting anything (even small things) over. Most of the features Rust gets pr…
sigh Please look at the "trophy case" here: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/
I think it has a fair chance (Go is a "systems" language and grew very quickly). I also believe you'll see it pop up in unikernels as well. Why, you ask? Because there's always 1 person that starts a project that gets traction. I don't see it growing and replacing C++ though. I don't think there's much incentive post C++11 to really consider porting anything (even small things) over. Most of the features Rust gets pr…
I disagree, segfaults can arise out of simple mistakes in rare cases that aren't always immediately obvious - let alone a segfault in a complex system.
A sign of a good language is to as much as possible make invalid states illegal by design. Why, if you can reliably check for bad memory use with the compiler, would you not do so? Toughness is no measure of coder talent, otherwise the best of us would only be using assembly for everything.
I would say unlikely, for the simple reason that Rust is just really hard .
Rust's complexity is equivalent to, but distinct from C++'s. I prefer it over C++, and I'm one big fan of the latter.
Imagine if Ford mandates its suppliers to use Rust for the software in its car and it faced little problems after a few years out on the road.
I think it has a fair chance (Go is a "systems" language and grew very quickly). I also believe you'll see it pop up in unikernels as well. Why, you ask? Because there's always 1 person that starts a project that gets traction. I don't see it growing and replacing C++ though. I don't think there's much incentive post C++11 to really consider porting anything (even small things) over. Most of the features Rust gets pr…
I am curious why specifically C++ 11? Could you elaborate?
Not too sure what is meant by "mainstream" but I can see Rust getting a foothold in certain industry, such as medical, automotive or aerospace. To get there, it will need to be mature and be stable significant enough. It will also need a big player to take that first step and prove it in production. Imagine if Ford mandates its suppliers to use Rust for the software in its car and it faced little problems after a few…
It does keep rising in popularity, but is that coming from folks actually using system languages like C, C++, Ada, and Forth? I'm guessing only a portion. There's a difference between a web developer using Rust enthusiastically for hobby projects and a seasoned C coder switching to Rust for a professional job. In fact, a lot of the projects I've seen in Rust (ex: Dropbox) are commonly being done in Go as long as the…
I've been using Rust heavily for 10 months. I think that if you want to use it for web stuff you very much can, but the language is more immature than it might first appear. If the community keeps going the way it is, I hope to work with it commercially by 2020.
The most promising things I've read about it as a serious systems language are from Cambridge Consultants [1,2], but there's a lot of ongoing work to make it ready for embedded work.
[1] http://blog.cambridgeconsultants.com/wireless-product-develo...
[2] http://blog.cambridgeconsultants.com/wireless-product-develo...