Comment by torginus
5 months ago
I yearn for the day when people will stop considering the main advertising bullet point feature that their software was written in Rust. Rust 1.0 was released a decade ago, plenty of time for its alleged technical advantages to become apparent.
It's like a handbag whose main claim to being a premium product isn't workmanship or materials, but that it has Gucci on its side.
> It's like a handbag whose main claim to being a premium product isn't workmanship or materials, but that it has Gucci on its side.
Knockoffs aside, the latter is intended to serve as a proxy for the former. I too will be happy when Rust is the boring everyday choice, but in 2025 we still see new buffer overflows every day. And if I'm picking a library, I still want to know if it's in the same language as the app it's going into.
An xpath/xslt engine is something you might want to include in other software, the programming language used might be an important information for this purpose.
Personally I consider the programming language used for a piece of software to be similar to the materials used for a handbag.