Re:The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust
by coldtea on Saturday July 19, 2025 @07:36PM
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C, C++, Python, Perl, Ruby, didn't have "millions of dollars in advertising", and yet.
Java and C# are the only one's that fit this. Go and Rust had some publicity from being associated with Google and Mozilla, but they both caught on without "millions of dollars in advertising" too. Endorsement by big companies like MS came much later for Rust, and Google only started devoting some PR to Go after several years of it already catching momentum.
Re:The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust
by Narishma on Saturday July 19, 2025 @11:22PM
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I don't know about the others but C and C++ certainly did. They had a large number of commercial compiler vendors advertising them in the 80s and 90s when they established themselves.
Java and C# are the only one's that fit this. Go and Rust had some publicity from being associated with Google and Mozilla, but they both caught on without "millions of dollars in advertising" too. Endorsement by big companies like MS came much later for Rust, and Google only started devoting some PR to Go after several years of it already catching momentum.