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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: 2) by janrinok on Monday September 05 2016, @07:15AM
Well, by 'we', I meant the majority. Until Linux, BSD and Mac subsequently entered the market, Windows was the only operating system in widespread use. It held a bigger share of the market than it does today. Yet, even today and despite that fact that we both dislike the company and its products, they still hold the market share. Windows 7 alone has more users than all OS/X versions in use today. You can say what you will, it is still a very successful company. One does not have to like their techniques and practices to realise that they are still a major player. They haven't produced anything innovative, but they have certainly marketed the overall package that, until more recently, has not even been challenged. Today, the Mac is also popular and Android knocks Microsofts products into the long grass as far as mobile devices are concerned.
All this is, of course, a detraction from TFS. It is Red Hat that is making progress - not in our eyes but certainly in the business world - and it is their employee who is responsible for pushing systemD down the linux users throats. And, again from their point of view, it is with a sound business idea behind it which has the potential to be a good move on their part. Rust has the ability, over time, to replace C/C++ given time. Of course, many will grumble and deny the new pretender but that doesn't mean it will necessarily fail.
As an aside, like you I started in the very early days. I built my first Nascom 1 from a bare circuit board and a bag full of components, following that with a Nascom 2 which I eventually converted into a Galaxy. Z80a, 4Mhz clock, and 8MB (I think) of RAM with a _5MB_ hard-drive! The Galaxy is no longer in use but is still in working order in my own Aladdin's cave. Those were the days .....
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]