Rust lacunae [LWN.net]

Rust lacunae

Posted Jun 11, 2021 12:02 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Rust lacunae by daniels
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

> Working with a language like Rust - which has a real type system unlike C/C++, the benefit of which flows through your entire codebase - would be a lot more compelling though.

Indeed. Rust is so nice (except for syntax which I still hate) that I fear for the Mozilla a lot nowadays. Because most (if not all) really popular languages which were developed in companies either belong to companies are no longer are relevant in the software field (like AT&T with C) or extinct (like Sun with C++ and Java, like Netscape with JavaScript, etc).

Rust was separated from Mozilla, though, let's hope it would save Mozilla from that fate.

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Rust lacunae

Posted Jun 14, 2021 16:45 UTC (Mon) by anton (subscriber, #25547) [Link] (1 responses)

Not sure why you mention Sun for C++. Bjarne Stroustroup worked at AT&T Bell Labs from 1979 to 2002.

Rust lacunae

Posted Jun 14, 2021 16:49 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Memory wart, sorry. So both C and C++ were by AT&T and Java was by Sun.

Thanks for the correction, but it still doesn't bode well for Mozilla.

Except Rust is now separated from it thus there are hope.