Even through it has some flaws, e.g. it’s not fully memory safe (there are some programming languages that are even safer, like Ada)?
Just in my opinion. It’s probably a trending programming language right now. More loved than C or C++ by some developers
The older something is, the more people grow used to it, but also have had a chance to get burned by it:
- C was released in 1972 (52 years), C99 was released in 1999 (25 years), hasn’t changed much since
- C++ was released in 1998 (26 years), there are 7 versions of C++ with notable changes
- Rust was released in 2015 (9 years), it’s still on the same 1.x version implying backwards compatibility
Rust was created to fix some of the problems C and C++ have had for decades, it’s only logical that people like it more… for now.
It’s a hyped language because it solves many problems that has persisted with C and C++ - without having to rely on garbage collection.
If anything, it’s underused. Not that I believe everything should be rewritten in Rust. That’s just stupid.
As a C++ developer Rust’s borrow checker is very interesting - it promises to solve my issues with C++ without the issues that make other languages (ie Java, Python…) have in the real world. (remember we choose C++ for a reason, Java isn’t correct for our application - if Java is correct you should use that instead)
If you learn Rust, you’ll find that you’d choose it over C/++ even without the brrow checker. Every little part of the development experience is just so much better.
