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Re:The biggest threat to Rust's sustainability by bsder on Friday March 19, 2021 @07:21AM (#26512041)
1) Sorry, but if you're talking safety critical, then you're talking Sealed Rust/Ferrocene which is talked about here: https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/sealed-rust-the-plan/

I mean, even with C, there is a very circumscribed subset that you use for "safety critical" applications.

2) People are banging on about Rust not being stable but the Rust Embedded guys DO lag for stability--so you can have stability if you choose. And Rust is by far the best language I have seen about being able to stay on old compiler versions and still use newer libraries.

3) I find crappy libraries to be the biggest threat to Rust's sustainability. There was a big "Gold Rush" mentality and a whole lot of unqualified people built a whole lot of crap libraries with no good way for someone to come along later and to flag "That's a crap library, please remove it from crates.io permanently".

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