Re:Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp
by steveklabnik on Friday June 26, 2015 @12:38AM
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Well, I certainly wish Swift well, and think they're doing cool stuff.
Re:Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp
by sinistersnare on Friday June 26, 2015 @10:14AM
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I personally disagree, there is little chance that Swift will be as fast as Rust and its runtime precludes it from a whole class of use that Rust has.
Swift also is annoyingly special-cased, with things like Options being special in the language, and if let only working on options (if i understand correctly). Rust took syntax like if let from swift, and then made it general.
Swift also has to deal with Obj-C interop which is not great. I imagine Swift being as popular as Objective-C in terms of non-mobile apps.
Anyway, if 5% improvement is all that Rust will have over Swift, it's as dead as Lisp.
When Swift is finally open-sourced, there will be a huge exodus from Rust community and move to Swift. This is not survivable. Rust will quickly lose the little momentum that it has right now and it will be game over.
Personally I believe that any investment into codebases using Rust is a huge mistake and a waste of money at this point in time.