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> the browsers are all C++ You mean one is already shipping Rust and another seems to be on track to shipping it soon?
Chrome is "on track"? Last I remember they had a document explaining why it's not a good idea for them. I disagree with it, and would very much wish for Chrome to ship Rust, but they don't seem to be interested for now.
> For now, Chrome investment in Rust will remain a background investigation (mostly directed towards prototyping these tools and techniques). If we become convinced this sort of interoperability is possible, we’ll revisit widespread use of Rust in Chrome
[0]: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
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Friends of mine that are contract programmers have been ramping on Rust for the past 2-3 years claiming the number of requests for it has been increasing exponentially. I installed it two weeks ago and have been getting a feel for it. It's like if C++, C#, and npm had an offspring. I always hoped Java would make a comeback, but Rust is looking like the real deal.
Applications of Java and Rust do not overlap. As a big data engineer, Rust does not provide any advantage to me. Good luck rewritting all the big data tools from Java (Elasticsearch, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Neo4j, Deeplearning4j, Cassandra, Solr, Arrow, OrientDB) and all the scientific stuff from C++ (Eigen, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Jax, Halide, OpenCV and the multitude of resources for CUDA and OpenCL) and databases (MySQ…
Yep, this is true. Java has an upper hand in data engineering. There are better languages for targeting the Java libraries and JVM than Java itself. I always use Clojure instead of Java when doing data crunching because it is much easier to create parallel programs with it. Kotlin is also coming up in this space.
Having said that. I like Rust for some reasons:
- targeting multiple libc (musl, no libc at all)
- targeting multiple platforms (ppc, mips, etc., even though some of those are tierN)
- having ML features
Why I do not like Rust:
- accidental complexity and convoluted syntax (maybe it is only me, but it is very hard to follow what is happening)
For me the ideal language would be something like F# with the good parts of Rust.
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Not really, they went and fired all their core Rust people.
Those core Rust people could form such a consultancy. They have a ripe market of people willing to part with their cash for it.
I agree the rust core folk could have done that and probably made a pretty penny. The issue is setting up a new consultancy business is more complex and inherently more risky than just taking a cushy job from the companies that will pay handsomely for their talents.
Having developed and launched a database (TerminusDB) built on a Rust core, this makes me slightly nervous. Feels like the evil empire will bring both great riches and great peril to the fantastic Rust community (part of the reason we picked Rust). Guaranteed sponsors for conferences, but also a certain malignant cynicism (am I being too harsh?). AWS will also aggressively compete for the best talent, which is tricky…
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I've basically had nothing but downvotes from the Rust community because any time I point something out about my thoughts on the language, I'm wrong and can't have those thoughts. Some one here in a separate thread said, "I don't understand your hate," and I'm like, what hate? It's a programming language. I don't hate it, I just don't yet find a reason to use it, but maybe I'm missing something really big. It's not r…
>I'm wrong and can't have those thoughts. There is a difference between facts and opinions, yah?
If there's a killer reason outside of memory safety and ownership, like compiler speed or something, I'd love to hear more about it from first hand accounts rather than someone's blog article about how great Rust is... and oh by the way we sell some product written in Rust, check it out! You know?
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Friends of mine that are contract programmers have been ramping on Rust for the past 2-3 years claiming the number of requests for it has been increasing exponentially. I installed it two weeks ago and have been getting a feel for it. It's like if C++, C#, and npm had an offspring. I always hoped Java would make a comeback, but Rust is looking like the real deal.
> I always hoped Java would make a comeback In order to make a comeback, Java first needs to fall from the TOP 3 languages used by professional programmers in the world. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#most-popular-...
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Friends of mine that are contract programmers have been ramping on Rust for the past 2-3 years claiming the number of requests for it has been increasing exponentially. I installed it two weeks ago and have been getting a feel for it. It's like if C++, C#, and npm had an offspring. I always hoped Java would make a comeback, but Rust is looking like the real deal.
> I always hoped Java would make a comeback In order to make a comeback, Java first needs to fall from the TOP 3 languages used by professional programmers in the world. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#most-popular-...
I believe that's Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook all looking to get involved in core Rust development (I think partially triggered by the Mozilla layoffs). If anybody was still harbouring doubts about Rust's future, now is the time to lay them aside.
My questions are about the domains rust ends up getting traction in, not so much whether it will.
Am I just not "with it?" I don't see the appeal of Rust, but it gets the hottest talk in HN-town. Maybe it's just because I haven't worked long enough with C or C++ to complain about them (only about a decade or so), but I don't have any issues with those languages. And I find it wholly unappealing to abandon the existing corpus of literal decades of knowledge having been poured into those language ecosystems all in…
One of the reasons it's so enchanting is how it manages memory without the use of a garbage collector thanks to the magic of lifetimes. Couple that with performance that's on par with C/C++ and design choices that encourage testing and documentation... there are a lot of technical reasons to love Rust. The welcoming community is another great reason, but I'll let community leaders speak to that point. In terms of how…
I feel like C++ can get really out of hand, so not having a cppfmt is surely a thing of jealousy.