[pjmlp]

As someone that has been around C and C++ communities since 1990's, I also expect that in the long term Rust won't be able to escape this phenomenon, even with editions.

Like any other programming language that has made it into the top 10 over several decades of production code.

The happy path will get fuzzier, as more humans have their own opinion on what means to write code on the ecosystem, with various kinds of backgrounds and their own agendas, companies whose IT refuses to upgrade, the amount of implementations in the industry increases, teachers not bothering to keep up to date,...

[leoh]

Hasn't been the case the last 10y. If anything there has been convergence.

[eslaught]

Async vs. non-async is the main example today. There are libraries that support one or the other, or sometimes one library will have two usage modes (effectively two different code bases) because you can't really mix them.

In the future who knows, because we don't know what features will get added to the language.

[surajrmal]

std vs nostd is another big one. Within nostd there are a ton of tiny fragmented worlds. For example, the Linux kernel ecosystem will likely development its own flavor of rust, especially when it comes to memory model. Old Linux distributions will end up with fairly ancient compiler versions that require code to stick to older conventions. I doubt well end up with people stuck on targeting c89 sort of situations, but things may trend in that general direction.

If you develop that for servers or mobile/desktop applications it might look more homegenous, but their are a lot of segments beyond those out there.

[leoh]

Yikes. May we fare more with more ease than C++.