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0 pointsActorNightly2y ago0 comments

Rust is by far not mature enough for serious development. Recent shenanigans with crablang are a strong sign of it going down the route of Java, i.e a corporate developed language with offshoots, which will end up with Rust being in the same crappy state.

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duped2y ago

> Rust is by far not mature enough for serious development

Except it's being used for serious development today

> going down the route of Java, i.e a corporate developed language with offshoots, which will end up with Rust being in the same crappy state.

So one of the most widely used applications programming languages in the world?

ActorNightlyOP2y ago

>Except it's being used for serious development today

No, its being used for pet projects by people. Serious development = major companies using it in backends.

>So one of the most widely used applications programming languages in the world?

Because of CS programs, and legacy software written in java. Java has a community dedicated to pushing theoretical CS concepts into the language (much like Rust), while allowing things like a logging library to fetch code from anywhere on the internet and execute it, by default (which I would bet on would be the future of Rust given current trajectory)

c-cube2y ago

> No, its being used for pet projects by people. Serious development = major companies using it in backends.

You mean companies like Dropbox, Cloudflare, Amazon, Microsoft...? Are they too small to be relevant?

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