Rust is a wave of the future

Recently I tweeted:

Once again I am being tempted to try out Rust, despite a relatively high confidence that I’m going to not like it. It’s the wave of the future, though. Sooner or later I’m going to have to read and hack on Rust code.

More than five years ago, I wrote an entry on my feelings on using on Rust myself which I have since summarized to people as ‘Rust cares about things that I don’t any more’. I understand that Rust has much better ergonomics than it did in 2015 (when Rust 1.0 was just out), and so some of my other issues might be better.

But that’s not why Rust is a wave of the future (in the manner of tweets, I said ‘the wave’). Rust is a wave of the future because a lot of people are fond of it and they are writing more and more things in Rust, and some of these things are things that matter to plenty of people…

Read in full here:

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/RustInOurFuture

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