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
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.
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.
