alt Hacker NewsI'd say rust is the new Java, not Go.
Complete with rewriting everything in the trendy memory safe quasi-portable language that is faster than (poorly written) C in your personal microbenchmarks.
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None of them are nowhere near the Java tooling and ecosystem.
We only touch Go due to containers tooling, and Rust only due to the RIR stuff from Python and JavaScript.
Enterprise consulting is staying with Java, .NET, JavaScript/Typescript, Python, Powershell, SQL, and co.
Naturally Swift and Kotlin if doing mobile without Cordova, React Native and friends.
C or C++ for native libraries, as those are what SDKs support out of the box without additional tooling.
Boring technology for the most part, and usually a few versions behind stuck in some LTS.
People have been rewriting software in better languages ever since there was more than one programming language. Eventually people will be rewriting Rust programs in GoombaLang or whatever. Isn't this what we want?
Huh? Rust is nothing like Java. Java is a dynamic type-erased garbage-collected managed abomination with FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition standard library.
I work in enterprise, and java still reigns supreme. You see some (very limited) cracks coming from other jvm languages, but that's all. Nobody talks about Rust, rarely about C.