Rust is Software's Salvation
The amount of hype Rust is getting is not going to end well for Rust. This reminds me of Ruby during 2007-2010 where it went from Patron Saint to Scapegoat for every startup that failed using it. Ruby survived it, and I&#x27;m sure Rust will too, but that doesn&#x27;t make it obnoxious for everyone else who inevitably gets swept up in the craze and crash.<p>Programming is hard. Programming will always be hard. Better&#x2F;newer tools (and sometimes influences from the old finally making it mainstream, like Standard ML) make programming easier but not fool proof. It&#x27;s misleading and harmful to hype the crap out of any language.<p>Unfortunately this stupidity is never going to end as long as language creators measure language success in adoption numbers and TIOBE scores rather than the warm fuzzy feeling of handling certain people&#x27;s needs really, really well.