Rust isn't an Exciting New Language any more. It's in the "work towards widespread adoption" phase. Slower feature development is natural and healthy, the stakes are high, mistaken design choices are much more harmful than low velocity at this point.
I'm not excited about Rust because of cool features, I'm excited because it's a whole new CLASS of language (memory safe, no GC, production ready). Actually getting it into the places that matter is way more interesting to me than making it a better language. That's easier to achieve if people are comfortable that the project is being steered with a degree of caution.
I'm not excited about Rust because of cool features, I'm excited because it's a whole new CLASS of language (memory safe, no GC, production ready). Actually getting it into the places that matter is way more interesting to me than making it a better language. That's easier to achieve if people are comfortable that the project is being steered with a degree of caution.