On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 10:10:31 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Thursday, 20 June 2013 at 14:37:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
Is it just me or has Rust completely displaced Go as the go-to
'why D when we have X' thing on the reddit?
It seems like not even a full year ago, Rust was rarely
mentioned and all the versus hype was about Go. Will Rust fade
away from D threads a year from now?
Hype is usual reaction to anything new and uncertain. More
interesting question is "what will be left after hype ends?".
Go has fit its narrow niche and it became obvious that it won't
directly compete to something as wide-purpose as D. Lot of
people like opinionated restrictions and minimalistic design
but that does not deal well with generic usage. However it has
somewhat taken away one of many possible D niches.
It is close to impossible to reason about possible niche Rust
may finally find because it is so new and in early design
stage. However, its toolset is already much more rich than Go
one and in that sense it provides more interesting competitor
to D.
I am quite sure it will fade away from D threads soon, but will
it fade away from D landscape - no idea :)
It all depends what Mozilla and Samsung do with the language.
If you have powerful entities pushing a language down developers
throats, it will get used. That is how many mainstream languages
got where they are now.
--
Paulo
