[cletus]

A fallacy of youth is to overreact to things. This means you buy into hype too easily and overstate doom and gloom. After getting disappointed by hype repeatedly you start to become skeptical and hopefully not jaded.

I've been watching Rust for years now and I honestly think it's the most exciting thing in decades in low-level programming. My personal opinion is that C++ is an unsalvageable Frankenlanguage. Memory safety is simply too important going forward and it's one thing Rust is designed for from the ground up.

Mistakes have been made and these particularly impact compile-time [1]. I'm not an expert in this field but reading this it sounds like it's difficult to walk back at this point.

I don't know how GCC's approach will differ here but I'm excited that it exists and continues to receive significant investment and matures. This can only be good for the Rust ecosystem.

[1]: https://pingcap.com/blog/rust-compilation-model-calamity

[mlindner]

That blog post is mostly a history of the Rust compiler than it is actually about Rust compile times, which have been continuously getting better. I wouldn't put a lot of stock in it.