Re:Ask HN: Is Learning Rust a Must?
by jollybean on Saturday July 17, 2021 @12:29PM
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We probably read very little about Java and yet it runs the world.
What we like to read and write about may not be very well correlated with reality.
Rust is a very niche language, gaining attention, and a serious contender to be an important language but it's probably not going to take over any space and even if it does, it's going to take a long while.
You definitely don't need to learn Rust.
It's a neat language though and it's worth tooling around in for a bit, at very least to get a feel for the 'borrow checker'.
What we like to read and write about may not be very well correlated with reality.
Rust is a very niche language, gaining attention, and a serious contender to be an important language but it's probably not going to take over any space and even if it does, it's going to take a long while.
You definitely don't need to learn Rust.
It's a neat language though and it's worth tooling around in for a bit, at very least to get a feel for the 'borrow checker'.