[pcwalton]

WebRender is certainly "GPU related" and is shipping to millions of happy Firefox users.

And yes, LLVM is written in C++. So what? C++ compilers depend on C code in libc. Portions of libc are written in assembler. Some assembly instructions are decomposed into microcode. Yet nobody doubts that C++ has eclipsed assembly language in terms of importance to the industry nowadays. We'll always need a way for humans to read the actual instructions that the silicon interprets, but relatively few people need to be able to do that nowadays. That dynamic is what the parent post means by one language "eclipsing" another.

[pjmlp]

For how long? 3% and decreasing.

Libc is UNIX only.

As for the rest, it is useful to tone down hype with some cold water reality check.

[Ar-Curunir]

> tone down hype with some cold water reality check.

I mean, you're the one who keeps mentioning Ada/SPARK on every Rust thread, so if anyone needs to stop hyping things, it's perhaps you?

[pjmlp]

Where is Rust powering avionics and high integrity systems in production for the last 40 years? The very definition of secure software.

No one is asserting how Ada is going to wipe language XYZ.