I really hope that this doesn't mean we've already hit peak Rust.
The recent hype of the language is great, but I think it's really important to start seeing substantial large projects receiving productivity gains otherwise it'll attract derision and then loose its momentum.
Firefox should be the poster child for this, with the Oxidation project now in full swing. I'm hoping to see similar work appearing elsewhere though. There's no reason why any large C or C++ project couldn't decide to write some new component in Rust, if they felt it would benefit them.
But they would need to have a contributor and maintainer base sufficiently motivated to learn Rust and stick with it. Which will happen more and more if Firefox can be visibly shown to benefit from including Rust in their toolkit.
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I really hope that this doesn't mean we've already hit peak Rust.
The recent hype of the language is great, but I think it's really important to start seeing substantial large projects receiving productivity gains otherwise it'll attract derision and then loose its momentum.
Firefox should be the poster child for this, with the Oxidation project now in full swing. I'm hoping to see similar work appearing elsewhere though. There's no reason why any large C or C++ project couldn't decide to write some new component in Rust, if they felt it would benefit them.
But they would need to have a contributor and maintainer base sufficiently motivated to learn Rust and stick with it. Which will happen more and more if Firefox can be visibly shown to benefit from including Rust in their toolkit.