[pjmlp]

While true, I don't need to rewrite those libraries and can just use them rigth away, and this is why C++ keeps being my to-go language for native libraries, despite some of its flaws.

I can spend all my development budget on the problem instead sacrificing part of it to building an ecosystem.

[oblio]

Yeah, but that's a losing race. Considering how much investment is happening with Rust right now (when Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, a ton of smaller companies are investing), Rust will become "good enough™" at some point.

I'd imagine that we're at most 3 years away from it having mature libraries for 99% of tasks you'd want to do as a professional developer.

[pjmlp]

C++ has hardly replaced C in some domains after 40 years trying, and it is mostly compatible with C at source level, build exactly to fit into existing C toolchains.

Some of those companies, like Google, Microsoft and NVidia, are heavily invested into C++, ISO C++ and selling C++ based products.

To use a common example that one puts against any technology that Microsoft touches, when will Office use Rust on its foundation and extension APIs?

Are you aware that Apple has rather created their own safe C dialect for iBoot firmware instead of using Rust?

[oblio]

A big company can push forward on many fronts in parallel :-)

[pjmlp]

Indeed, as long as it makes sense in the long run.

If we can have Singularity/Midori back, with a microkernel in Rust, it would be quite nice, but yeah, I guess that is more of wishful thinking.