I often wonder how much economics have to play in the reason that C++ has so many features added to it every update. (JS too, for that matter). My gut says that if Rust "succeeds" in becoming widespread, it will be subject to this as well. Not sure it could avoid the pressure.
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If such an effect exists (plausible), why do you think Go has been an exception to it?
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"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones that evolve and the ones nobody uses." Loosely based on Stroustrup
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It will never be done. Guaranteed. Language decisions pick a community: Every addition will exclude an increasing amount of people who prefer stable/small/smaller languages. This means with every addition the push-back will get smaller, not bigger. → Rust will grow like C++.
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I definitely hope so; but also don't think we're quite there yet.
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OCaml bootstrapped Rust, I'm looking forward to seeing the languages bootstrapped from Rust
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Check out Louis Pilfold’s Gleam
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Rob Pike said in an interview with the
@changelog that he finds Rust's development strange because of the lack of spec. Do you think that's why it's hard to "done"?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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for archival purposes, a hard feature freeze will at some point be ideal; see also Knuth’s freeze on TeX. (it’s the best way to actually deliver on any promise of backward compatibility)
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What degree of done-ness are you thinking? I feel most successful languages that get “done” get really popular-but-painfully-stagnant (Java)
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