[hcabral]

Without compare language/platform abilities, it looks like a major hype cycle like Node or even Java back in the 90s and early 2000s. I read HN and see a lot of stuff around Rust that I don't see elsewhere, so this is also kind of a "why here?" question too. =)

[gostsamo]

I don't know where do you compare it to, but the advantages of rust are more technical and not so business oriented as Node or Java. Node and Java were "write once, use twice or more" and it was a major business saving of time and developer resources. Rust's advantage is correctness and lack of bugs which is harder to sell to execs whose horizon is the next quarter profits and not the long-term maintenance costs of the project.

[PaulHoule]

I remember getting into a an argument about Java being overhyped in 1995 but you know Java is still here…. AWT is dead, Swing is dead, JavaFX is dead, applets are dead but Java is still heavily used.

[wing-_-nuts]

JavaFx is dead?