Re:Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems progra...
by dragonwriter on Monday April 10, 2017 @09:11PM
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> Trying to port something from another language to Rust is difficult because Rust's ways of doing things are so different from other languages.
That's the whole reason to have a new language; if we just wanted a language that works like elcurrent popular languages, we wouldn't need a new language for that.
> I have the feeling that Rust is destined for a niche like Haskell - cool, but not mainstream.
Becoming a Haskell or a Lisp -- never an industrially dominant language but one from which later and more industrially popular languages are continuously mining for some subset of their ideas because they solve problems long before most users of industrially popular languages even recognized the problem, much less the value of the particular solution, is not a failure.
And it makes the language one that is valuable to learn even if you don't often get to use it anger.
That's the whole reason to have a new language; if we just wanted a language that works like elcurrent popular languages, we wouldn't need a new language for that.
> I have the feeling that Rust is destined for a niche like Haskell - cool, but not mainstream.
Becoming a Haskell or a Lisp -- never an industrially dominant language but one from which later and more industrially popular languages are continuously mining for some subset of their ideas because they solve problems long before most users of industrially popular languages even recognized the problem, much less the value of the particular solution, is not a failure.
And it makes the language one that is valuable to learn even if you don't often get to use it anger.