alt Hacker NewsI agree with the sentiment somewhat. Some rust libraries are dying, while some great new ones thrive (recently found iroh and wgpu to name a few). Everyone wants to write a game engine or some fun project and then abandon it, but no one wants to write a game. No application software has really "cemented" itself in the global ecosystem. Except for maybe ripgrep?
I would like to see support for more compilers (https://rust-gcc.github.io/), more interoperability with C/C++, better support for cross-compilation. Maybe less reliance on crates.io, static linking, and permissive licenses.
Still, I see Rust as the natural progression from C++. It has enough momentum to flatten all competitors (Carbon, Zig, Nim, Go) except scripting languages
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Rust will not "flatten" Go. They have some overlap but generally don't serve the same purpose and don't appeal to the same crowd. Go's popularity is undeniable, both in open source and in the industry. Outside of major shops and the odd shady Fintech startup, there are still very little Rust jobs out there. It's not necessarily bad, it's just the nature of it. Rust adoption is a slow thing because it addresses problems faced by slow moving software.
I find a lot of Rust libraries "seem" dead, based on github activity, but looking into it, they are actively used in many projects. I think Rust projects just tend to have less open issues, and don't need to be maintained as often. This is also the case internally at my company.
> Still, I see Rust as the natural progression from C++
I don't; Rust has its niche but currently can't replace C++ everywhere.
From what I'm aware of, Rust has poor ergonomics for programs that have non-hierarchical ownership model (ie. not representable by trees), for example retained mode GUIs, game engines, intrusive lists in general, non-owning pointers of subobjects part of the same forever-lived singleton, etc.
> Go
To displace Go you must also displace Kubernetes and its ecosystem (unlikely, k8s is such a convenient tool), or have k8s move away from Go (not gonna happen considering who developed both)