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This is a hard problem, because it involves mindshare and resources; even a perfect language would take years to gain a serious foothold. But it'll never be solved if nobody tries.

I'm glad someone's trying.



This is definitely true, and the exact point I'm building my arguments upon. Are Rust and Go better languages than C and C++ for solving lots of problems, in many, many cases yes! But we can't use them. How frustrating is that!?

Of course there's a difference between being able to use a language and when mainstream starts picking it up. Considering for example C++, it wasn't only until mid 90's when it really took off, a bit more than 20 years after it was named C++ from C with Classes. Perhaps Go and Rust have their place in the stack sometime in 2030.




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