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by DyslexicAtheist
1848 days ago
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> looks more like some misguided worship to a single language this pretty much sums up Rust atm. There is a lot of hard-core evangelizing which is off-putting imho. I still like the language but wonder if a rewrite for rewrite sake will convince the majority, considering this is a community effort and not a large org controlling the future of the language. Especially that there are other ecosystems like Zig or Nim that are pretty cool too and fit into a similar niche. Hard-core evanglism just feels like advise from somebody who's only tool is a hammer. on the other hand I do remember the amount of marketing and advertising budget that Sun and later Oracle pumped into Java to make it fly in the late 90ies. They made deals with University professors to make sure the language is favored. It was a hype-shit machine unmatched by anything we've seen since (and when I use the word shit I mean your browser being hi-jacked and reconfigured with a new toolbar and a search engine simply because you installed a JRE. not too different from how malware behaves). It's not that early Java was terrible (though it certainly over-promised and under-delivered for over a decade) but if Java would have had to grow organically back then like Rust/Nim/Zig do today, then Java wouldn't have stood a chance. There were even ads at airports and on TV. Ads for a programming language during a time most people watching TV didn't know or care what computers are for! So I'm quite glad that this is just a couple of people who are overly excited about what they do. We've had a lot more asymmetry with larg-corp sponsored garbage. Go Rust!! (and Nim and Zig) |
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Regarding Java, it had a major killer feature that triggered adoption even before the whole marketing wave started.
It was actually portable, not like trying to write C or C++ code in the middle of ongoing standards, compilers still stuck in the old ways, POSIX on paper and on actual UNIX clones not being 100% the same thing.
It was like a fresh air of portability even with an interpreted runtime, JIT only came in by 1.2 days.