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    1. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami 13 Feb 2019
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      C embeds, drives systems with predictable-ish timing, runs everywhere, and has an active development community. That ain’t nothing. Everyone seems to forget the explosive growth happening in C++ right now, acting like that’s “some other thing”. Nope.

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    2. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami 13 Feb 2019
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      No, but they’re the ones every single person on this thread is on this thread with. In practice, they drive GUIs.

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    3. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami 13 Feb 2019
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      The primary thing that drives away adoption of alternatives is; well; bullshit. “Everyone would adopt my beautiful syntax if only nobody pointed out the interpreter runs on a single Teddy Ruxpin”. Good tech spreads when it knows what’s good, and does better.

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    4. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 13 Feb 2019
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      It’s not about the language. You have no idea how little the “code driving UIs” is even maintained, at all. That’s why it doesn’t get rewritten: it works, and there is no money in rewriting it.

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    5. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami 13 Feb 2019
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      How much of Firefox development is in Rust nowadays?

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    6. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 13 Feb 2019
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      Not as much as I would like, for a variety of reasons which have nothing to do with the qualities of Rust or C++ as a language.

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    7. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami 13 Feb 2019
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      When everyone ends up in the same place, “properties of the language” may be more pernicious / distributed than they appear.

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      Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 13 Feb 2019
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      It’s because (a) when you modify an existing component, as opposed to writing a new one, you more or less have to write in that component’s existing language; (b) a lot of the organization doesn’t want to learn another language.

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        2. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 13 Feb 2019
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          It has nothing to do with Cargo, or Rust not being able to create graph data structures, or borrow checking being a burden, or any other of the technical reasons that people come up with.

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          We have a pretty good track record of *new* components being written in Rust where possible.

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