alt Hacker NewsBefore we ask if almost all things old will be rewritten in Rust, we should ask if almost all things new are being written in Rust or other memory-safe languages?
Obviously not. When will that happen? 15 years? Maybe it's generational: How long before developers 'born' into to memory-safe languages as serious choices will be substantially in charge of software development?
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sho_hn • today at 4:45 AM
I'm a bit wary if this is hiding an agist sentiment, though. I doubt most Rust developers were 'born into' the language, but instead adopted it on top of existing experience in other languages.
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lmm • today at 4:52 AM
> Obviously not
Is it obvious? I haven't heard of new projects in non-memory-safe languages lately, and I would think they would struggle to attract contributors.
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I don't know I tend to either come across new tools written in Rust, JavaScript or Python but relatively low amount of C. The times I see some "cargo install xyz" in a git repo of some new tool is definitely noticeable.