Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo

> Python is 30 years old and just added pattern matching. C++17 and C++20 feel like completely new languages. The alternative implementations are constantly lagging. If you mean "stability" as "no new language features" then I don't know of any general-purpose language that reached that stage without being considered dead.

The difference is that these other two languages have a specification and alternative implementations that can keep up with each other, aren't they? Also, especially C/C++ are evolving at a much slower pace than Rust where almost every new upstream release contains new language features.

I mean, the whole reason this article exists is because Rust is special in this regard and causes problems for downstream projects. You can't really deny that, can you?

> Rust clearly needs to reach niche and new platforms faster, to gain wider acceptance and not cause anguish when the next library starts using it. If it can do that without inflicting frontend differences on the user, it'll have done better at portability than C and C++.

Sure, but the problem is that this hasn't happened yet and one of the main reasons is the fact that the language is moving so fast that alternative implementations have trouble keeping up.