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Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

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Post by superkuh » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 9:47 PM UTC

i2talics wrote: post #155

superkuh wrote: post #129

I hope this kind of thing means Rust stops making so many rapid breaking changes in th compiler. I've tried it twice, once in early 2021 once 2025. Both times I tried to compile a few random projects I found on the web, stuff like a wordpress fanfic scraper, a software defined radio program, etc. In 2021 my linux distro I was using had just been released 3 months prior but it's rustc already could not compile 2 of 3…

It sounds like you are not running into breaking changes, you are just running into projects that like to use new features that are not available in your older compiler.

Correct. From the point of view of a stable desktop LTS system the code that the typical rust developer writes breaks within a few months as it starts using features from latest that are forwards compatible.

Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

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Post by zahlman » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC

monocasa wrote: post #510

zahlman wrote: post #430

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you need that kind of resolution for a weather app? What are you even going to depict with all those pixels?

Because people are looking at it on 4k screens.

I mean, I usually check the weather by putting "weather" into a search engine. And this will show me little SVG icons that take up a tiny fraction of my low-resolution screen and probably involve like less than a kilobyte of path description. And I think this looks perfectly fine and I can hardly even fathom why anyone would want it to be fancier than that. I think that even animating them would make the display actively worse.

Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

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Post by hn_submit » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 10:33 PM UTC

fishfasell wrote: post #330

i2talics wrote: post #157

I hope announcements like this show that Rust is not a fledgling little language that moves fast and breaks things anymore. It's a mature, serious competitor to well established languages like C++ and C#. This is particularly important when trying to compare the experience of using Rust to other languages in the "better C/C++" space like Zig and Odin -- these are much newer and have more rough edges than Rust.

Rust is a serious contender for the next mainstream, widely adopted low level language.

I would say it already is. But it takes time for all software to be rewritten in Rust.