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10 Years of Betting on Rust
I wrote my first line of Rust in June 2015, a month after Rust 1.0 landed. Coming from C, Python, and JavaScript, I never looked back. Two Rust-based startups and 500k lines of Rust later, here are some reflections on the milestone.
More than a safe bet, Rust has a degree of programmer empathy that is unprecedented in large software projects: simple and robust builds, the best error messages and linting around, great docs and IDE integration, and strong CI and regression testing. More than a safe bet, Rust has a degree of programmer empathy that is unprecedented in large software projects: simple and robust builds, the best error messages and linting around, great docs and IDE integration, and strong CI and regression testing. Adoption hurdles remain for GUIs, machine learning, and game development due to entrenched ecosystems, high switching costs, cultural inertia, and established tooling.
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