> Thanks to not having a runtime and being quite easy to create a shared library with a C-ABI, pretty much any software written in any language could be extended with code written in Rust.
Ok, but you kind of added complexity to your codebase. Now you will need not only C++ coders, but also Rust coders. If you are Mozilla or Google you can do that, you eat complexity for breakfast.. But they are probably not the companies you need right now to keep your steady growth, unless of course you are lucky that they created some killer app in Rust because of their in-house use of it. Like Google did recently with Kubernetes, only it is in Go of course, but i guess it checks the square of a killer app which helps into the language adoption as a programming trend.
Speaking of Go, it once was suffering from the same problem Rust is going through right now. It was sucessful in a first phase because of its community, but it needed more to start having more adoption and mind share. Then, Docker happened, and Go found a sweet spot to aim for and take it to the second base.
Ok, but you kind of added complexity to your codebase. Now you will need not only C++ coders, but also Rust coders. If you are Mozilla or Google you can do that, you eat complexity for breakfast.. But they are probably not the companies you need right now to keep your steady growth, unless of course you are lucky that they created some killer app in Rust because of their in-house use of it. Like Google did recently with Kubernetes, only it is in Go of course, but i guess it checks the square of a killer app which helps into the language adoption as a programming trend.
Speaking of Go, it once was suffering from the same problem Rust is going through right now. It was sucessful in a first phase because of its community, but it needed more to start having more adoption and mind share. Then, Docker happened, and Go found a sweet spot to aim for and take it to the second base.