alt Hacker NewsIf all Rust accomplishes is ushering some other better project, it would have been worth it.
I think it would take a while for that to happen, purely due to momentum' the same thing that makes some people think that Rust isn't being used will affect any younger language just as much, if not more.
I think that there's an easier language than Rust struggling to come out of it, but if Rust had been that easier language with different compromises, I doubt it would have gained critical mass that allowed it to get where it is today. Being fast and safe meant it carved a niche in a "free square" that drove it to have a clear differentiator that allowed it to gain an initial audience. I also suspect that it is easier toale a language fast and then evolve it to make it easier to use, than it is to make it easy to use first and then make it fast.
Note I ignored the 10x part. I'd find it a bit lame if a language came out that's 1.1x better than Rust because we're now in the awkward position of having rewritten lots of stuff in the second best language. However, should a 10x language come out you'll just have to swallow all that bitterness and start over because 10x is 10x.
Obviously a 1.1x language will come out - we don't just jump directly to 10x - and that's fine, fantastic even, but a little bit annoying when you're a language enthusiast and you've personally spent lots of time advocating for the now next-best language.