[aidenn0]

For a field in which a large fraction (if not a majority) of the people in industry have (nominally at least) science degrees, CS research takes a fairly long time to penetrate into industry. Rust 1.0 had few, if any, features that weren't demonstrated in academia 30 years earlier.

[jerf]

It is a lot easier to write a paper demonstrating some feature than to write a production-quality ecosystem based on that feature. There isn't much either the academic side nor the engineering side can do about that.

And it's not like every academic idea that worked in a paper has worked as well as hoped when someone tried to turn it into a production-quality ecosystem.

[tubthumper8]

The central core of Rust is mutability NAND sharing, enforced by a borrow checker. Was that really established 30 years prior? I thought that came from the Cyclone research language (v1 release 2006) which was only a few years prior to the initial stages of Rust (late 2000s, depending on how you count it)