"The HTML parser is now written in Rust"
"The Rust parser is also about 10% faster than the C++ version it replaced,"
I am not saying this is a systematic analysis by far, but Rust is pushing into domains where C and C++ dominated in the past. And that seems to be a real push. To me it looks as if both C and C++ are standing to lose some ground in the next few years, directly to Rust. Perhaps even via snowball effect.
Take ladybird (last month blog; not that ladybird stands for all projects out there, of course; it is just an example):
https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-05-31/
"The HTML parser is now written in Rust" "The Rust parser is also about 10% faster than the C++ version it replaced,"
I am not saying this is a systematic analysis by far, but Rust is pushing into domains where C and C++ dominated in the past. And that seems to be a real push. To me it looks as if both C and C++ are standing to lose some ground in the next few years, directly to Rust. Perhaps even via snowball effect.