Re: 'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C,? according to Greg Kroah-Hartman

Robert Heller <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:23:09 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user
Organization Deepwoods Software
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:15:25 -0000 (UTC) CGS <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On 2026-07-25, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, but my question above: is it better?
> >
> 
> As we know from Darwin, things evolve. They don't evolve toward
> "betterment"; there is no evolutionary goal. There is only adaptation to
> environmental constraints.
> 

And following this analog the question really is:

Will Rust survive and carve out its own nitch? And if it does, will it take
over any of the nitches occupied by any of its competitors? (C, C++, Java,
Python, Lisp, Tcl, etc.)