I think the hype has a lot more to do with paid content marketers. You may recognize a few from when Rails was the new shiny. If you look at surveys of actual usage, such as by Jetbrains or Stack Overflow, the number of actual Rust users is very small. Small enough that I’m skeptical of anyone who states that they have written anything other than side projects. Product names and businesses are usually omitted in testimonials here on HN. The activity on GitHub is also not growing with respect to other popular languages (and has not for years). C++ is actually growing modestly, if GitHut2.0 is to be believed.
That makes sense to me given the impressive features that have come to C++17 and 20.
I would not consider the contents of crates.io to be “vetted software”. If the burden is on the developer to carefully evaluate literally hundreds of dependencies, which may each be written in their own package-specific micro language of macros and present in several versions, then I think that’s a pretty substantial cost to bear. More likely, that expensive, unglamorous work will be papered over and ignored.
Better yet, read the epic rant that Zed Shaw made about Ruby. It is certainly juvenile, but I don’t think it’s baseless. Now, consider that the core members of the rust community are exactly the same people he was talking about when rails was the new shiny.
Rust is for writing blog posts about how it’s the most liberating, empowering and inspiring experience of your life. Boring technology like C and Java are for writing software.
There’s already an OS completely written in Rust called Redox. Nobody uses it. I’m not entirely sure you could do useful work with it, which is contrary to the Rust marketing team’s talking points that Rust code is guaranteed to be fast and guaranteed to be bug free because Rust is just so darn great and the compiler authors so wonderful and smart. That there are basically no success stories other than a couple side projects after a decade of marketing is of no consequence.
Don’t read the blog posts. Go to the repositories. Check out the crates.io landfill. Grab the Rust book and try to write anything more significant than a CLI toy. I promise that you will know exactly why nobody uses the language in anger.
The Fuschia team, who are partly responsible for the Rust myth don’t even use it in their kernel. But they want it in Linux. I wouldn’t be shocked if this was all some conspiracy by Google and Microsoft to make a personal computing unusable so that everyone has to use their cloud offerings.
I suppose this can’t be stopped. I hope someone has the resources to curate a working fork of the Linux kernel that doesn’t have all the “improvements” it’s about to get.
The Rust jobs also appeared to be blockchain related, so I wouldn’t count on that being a place that could get you to retirement. I would expect Rust is a requirement so a marketer add a bullet point in his or her slide deck.
Contextualizing events with the knowledge that the FBI has shown itself to be a modern NKVD and the “intelligentsia” in journalism are happy to be mouthpieces of the US oligarchy actually saves you a lot of confusion.
Being lost in the moment of a blizzard of “crises” that really aren’t is intellectually paralyzing. Probably intentionally so.
Permanently? I thought the standard of performance has become “reducing symptoms, maybe, we think, we’re not really sure. This is probably safe though”
Article says 1700lf and looks about 4ft wide, so that’s 6800ft of bridge deck. At $2.8M that would mean they spent $412/sf of deck. Where I live, the state DOT spends about $150/sf of bridge deck for traffic rated bridges. I’ve gotten prices for prefab ped bridges as low as $110 delivered (still have to pay a half-dozen guys for labor and the cost of a crane to place).
I guess there were some special construction challenges, but $415/sf is hardly a bargain for a bridge at first blush.
That may be low in some places where capital improvement costs are basically just graft.
I’m actually trying to say that it is an industry dominated by snake-oil, charlatans and coffee-table “science”. There is no standard or obvious measure of performance, and liability is usually of little concern. The planners I know are hardly puppets of the real estate cabal and much more victims of naïveté and wiz-bang marketing. Like, I’m assuming rails-devs a decade ago and, maybe, rust devs today.
A planner at my firm recently told me, with complete confidence, that on-street parking increases safety. Then I was told that research from AASHTO was just not something this person agreed with, and haven’t I heard of Strong Towns? Here’s a lovely YouTube video.
That makes sense to me given the impressive features that have come to C++17 and 20.