Rust and Go have been around for roughly the same amount of time. Yet
nothing serious has been done in Rust. There’s a lot of talk and vapor
ware predictions. But nothing serious has come from that shitty little
hobby language (preferred by Node developers, with Cargo being ported
from NPM) with the world’s worst syntax. When I say serious I’m talking
Kubernetes, Docker, Linux kernel, OpenGL, TensorFlow, Unreal Engine,
serious. I’m talking, CoreOS, k3os,
basis-of-the-entire-fucking-cloud-native movement serious. Rust has zero
case studies that matter (and a growing number of Ph.d academics writing
papers debunking the lies about “safety” from the Rust script kiddies.
Spoiler alert: to do anything significant you must to with pointers and
throw “safety” out the fucking window when you do).
There’s a reason Go has a massive number of significant case studies published on go.dev and Rust has virtual nothing. But Rust does have a few. My mind is made up that Rust is dangerous shit and that everyone should not just avoid, but actively campaign against to counter the flowery lies from its community. (People have written academic papers for the same purpose. Yeah, it is really that bad.)
Despite my “bias” I’ve started this zet to keep track of the ones Rust fans bring up every time I state these uncomfortably objective fact:
Most of these projects have better alternatives written in other languages. My favorite was when the trendy, inexperienced Discord team dropped Go for Rust (a bad choice to begin with because they couldn’t code C/C++) and then went to Erlang dropping Rust (which is why people eventually shut up about their idiotic blog and Reddit post). If you are making corporate and career mind-share and technical architecture decisions based on Discord Reddit posts I pity you.
Ironically, all these objective facts about how much Rust sucks just propel the tiny “community” forward. So be it. Maybe something good will come of it. For me, it is the fact that I’m actually looking at modern C++ with a completely new appreciation, and solidified my position on C as the most important language to learn even if you never code it professionally. Rust really just doesn’t matter.