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Re:Zig and Rust by legerdemain on Monday March 27, 2023 @04:15PM (#35331822)
Not a particularly deep comment, but... matklad (the author) created, essentially, the entirety of the modern Rust developer experience. He is the original author and biggest contributor to both rust-analyzer and Intellij Rust. If someone this central to the Rust world has switched to writing Zig full time, and not for boring, pragmatic reasons either, a little seed of doubt about the long-term stability of Rust as a professional community begins to grow in my heart.
Re:Zig and Rust by molodec on Monday March 27, 2023 @09:34PM (#35334688)
Grayson Hoare who created Rust has been working on Swift language in the last few years at Apple. People change jobs, there is nothing wrong with that. Rust is a community driven project, and the community will keep building. IntelliJ Rust plugin has not stopped evolving since matklad left. matklad may found a new interesting project that happened to be using zig. He didn't say he left Rust community
Re:Zig and Rust by brundolf on Monday March 27, 2023 @11:11PM (#35335417)
The post is about how the languages serve different purposes, and he just happens to be working on a project now that he believes benefits more from Zig. Nowhere does he make broad-strokes statements about Rust's (or Zig's) fate