On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 2:27 PM Robert Heller <[email protected]> wrote: > > At Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:15:25 -0000 (UTC) CGS <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > On 2026-07-25, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Yes, but my question above: is it better? > > > > As we know from Darwin, things evolve. They don't evolve toward > > "betterment"; there is no evolutionary goal. There is only adaptation to > > environmental constraints. > > And following this analog the question really is: > > Will Rust survive and carve out its own nitch? And if it does, will it take > over any of the nitches occupied by any of its competitors? (C, C++, Java, > Python, Lisp, Tcl, etc.)
I think Rust's niche is memory safety and speed without relying on automatic garbage collection. Managed languages, like Java and .Net, have the worst time with memory problems. It's amazing how many memory tools are needed to debug languages that provide garbage collection. (Adding more memory to a vm/runtime is not the answer to out-of-control memory management). Jeff
