Comment by sanderjd

Good enough can also be the enemy of great. It's a tricky balance. My feeling is that there are already plenty of languages that are mature and stable enough to be good choices for industry but few (if any) that are actively and inclusively defining themselves the way Rust is. It's true that it won't be viable for a good while yet, and that's ok. What's the rush?

A data point: I have a few little Rust projects that rely on some patches to some other libraries; whereas I used to spend above a half-hour compiling and sometimes an hour or two freshening making things compile for the new version, I'm now typically down to about 10 seconds to install the newest nightly and 5 minutes or to fix up some warnings and standard library changes. A stable 1.0 is starting to feel imminent and inevitable to me.