Assume mainstream adoption as used by around 7% of all github projects
Personally, I’d like to see Nim get that growth.
Oh there is absolutely zero disappointment.
Years ago I wanted to learn how OpenBSD worked. Some people said to me “ah you want to get into programming at OS level? I was a bit disappointed with Go. But don’t learn C, learn Rust; Rust is the future there”. So as a total novice I looked at all 3 on the page. My impressions were: Go looks easy, C looks a bit harder, Rust looks… way too advanced for a beginner like me.
Later when I heard of Zig I started reading and it looked a bit more like what I expected a “future C” to look like.
I wish I had more time and skills to do work in C, Rust and Zig. I’m a Go programmer by trade.
Rust forces you to learn and think about the stuff you need to know to be an effective C or C++ programmer.
If you know how computers work and what happens behind the scenes, as well as some familiarity with functional languages with strong types Rust makes a lot of sense and isn’t egen hard.
If you are new to programming or have only done scripting with languages like python then yeah, rust must look like hell.
