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You know a language has arrived when its toolchain ships as a standard component with operating systems.
Rust, Mozilla's language for safe and speedy systems level programming, has landed a prime-time slot in the next edition of Fedora Linux, according to the change set for the first public alpha for Fedora 25.
This doesn't mean that any system components in Fedora will be authored with Rust -- yet. But it does mean that Fedora users, many of whom are developers, will have easy access to Rust's ecosystem in their Fedora environments.
[...]Fedora's rationale for including Rust stems from both the language's growing popularity and its potential relevance to Fedora's user base. Aside from citing Rust's presence in the 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey as one of the most loved languages, Red Hat noted, "Mozilla is starting to use Rust in Firefox, and now Fedora's Firefox maintainers could enable those components."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Friday September 02 2016, @02:36PM
Some language no one uses is in Fedora, but where are builds for open-source swift and .NET? I tried to build Swift for Fedora, but got nowhere because of compiler errors during the build. I can't find any RPMs or anything for this stuff. Does no one even want to try out these newly open-sourced tools? I found one guy who had never built anything for Fedora before struggling through the process of getting Swift packaged to their satisfaction, but he got nowhere. If Apple and MS want people to use this stuff, why don't they package it so you can install it and get started? (Dumping code that won't compile into GitHub is not useful.) Is Rust, a language no one uses, potentially relevant to Fedora's user base, while Swift isn't? I can understand maybe Fedora not wanting to touch .NET, but isn't Mono already part of Fedora, so it's relevant to someone, which is more than Rust can say.
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