[nynx]

Maybe you misunderstood. Rust is already used widely in certain industries and quickly growing in many others. It’s not a question of if rust will succeed at this point. It already has. It’s soon to be allowed in upstream Linux kernel drivers, for example.

[ncmncm]

Certainly you misunderstood: more people pick up C++ for production use every week than the total employed today coding Rust. That will be true next year, too. More are employed coding Ada than Rust. More code Erlang than Rust. More code Forth than Rust. Rust is not "used widely" by any defensible definition.

It still seems possible that Rust could, someday, come to be used widely, beyond the HN echo chamber, but only with serious action. Wishful thinking has always reliably failed to drive mainstream language adoption.

[V_Terranova_Jr]

> More are employed coding Ada than Rust.

> More code Forth than Rust

Not trying to be a dick, but do you have any evidence you can point to for these claims? I find them to be surprising and unlikely.

[ncmncm]

You are welcome to offer your own selection of old, niche languages used more, industrially, than Rust.

But, you do know that Postscript is a Forth, right?