I honestly feel like rust is boring technology in most senses of the word. It “just works” more than almost any other technology that I’ve used. The ownership system is new and different, but that’s really the only thing.
Honestly, so is Go. I used to use Go, and it's boring as hell. I hate it for a few choices they made, but they definitely achieved their goal. It is quite boring.
I agree with you though, so is Rust. The less boring areas imo these days aren't languages (at least none i see), as all the good languages are boring. Zig for example, is pretty mundane too.
The older i get the more i value confidence in a product. Confidence that it won't crash at runtime. Confidence that i won't be bugged over the weekend. etc
I've led and been on teams that have written multiple production-grade Rust services that have together delivered 100MM+ USD of value. The number of production bugs has been in the single digits, with exactly one outage that lasted more than a few minutes in the last 3 years. How about yourself?
In my experience, Rust delivers by far the fewest number of bugs in production out of any mainstream language. It gets the fundamentals right like nothing before it. &, &mut, Send and Sync take care of many classes of bugs in the inner loop of productivity.
> There's too much ecosystem churn, and new language features are deployed too often.
That kinda feels like saying Linux is too crazy because new apps get made for Linux frequently.
You can use the same part of the language tomorrow that you used today. Nothing is changing out from under you. If you're afraid of libraries, don't use them. You'd have the same problem in any ecosystem that is new, no?
> That kinda feels like saying Linux is too crazy because new apps get made for Linux frequently.
Apps are okay, but other parts of userland that roll out breaking changes on a regular basis are definitely a problem [1] [2] [3]. Even if they aren't technically part of the kernel, they are usually used with it to provide a complete working system, and they break stuff all the time.
With my (admittedly limited) experience with the Hadoop ecosystem, I'd sincerely beg for people to stop writing databases in Java... Apart from the way bigger system requirements, dependency version hell, having to monitor GC pauses is just so, so annoying
