I was already secretly imagining a future where Rust will completely replace C as the low level language for everything. Even the Linux kernel rewritten in it eventually. It'd be a much better world with no #ifdefs, strong type safety and memory safety depending on compilers instead of fallible programmers.
But I was expecting it would take a while before people had the ambition to start doing these things, even when it comes to the smaller ambition of rewriting the GNU coreutils. Rust is a great language already, but it's not a stable language yet.
I wonder if my imagination will become reality eventually. There's really good buzz around Rust now, and it's not even 'production ready'.
But I was expecting it would take a while before people had the ambition to start doing these things, even when it comes to the smaller ambition of rewriting the GNU coreutils. Rust is a great language already, but it's not a stable language yet.
I wonder if my imagination will become reality eventually. There's really good buzz around Rust now, and it's not even 'production ready'.