[hitekker]

A big company I worked at actually deprecated the last of its Rust code last year. Maintaining Rust was much more expensive than predicted, and hiring and/or mentoring Rust Engineers proved even more expensive.

A simpler performant language like Zig, or a boring language + a different architecture would have been the better choice.

[tasuki]

> A big company I worked at actually deprecated the last of its Rust code last year.

What replaced Rust?

[hitekker]

A newer JVM language, which admittedly came with its own share of problems.

[__float]

Is Zig really a simpler language? It has a ton of features!

[scubbo]

"Simple language" is often used as shorthand for "a language in which it is simple to express ideas", rather than "a language with few features". A language can, in fact, have many features and still be simple(-to-write-in); or, like Go, it can have so few features that it is complex-to-write-in.