Conrod – A Rust GUI Library
I have mixed feelings about this.<p>On one hand, I'm enthused that Rust, arguably the only serious contender to C++'s throne, is gaining traction.<p>On the other hand, I'm scared that respectable projects like Qt (~6M lines of C++, man-millenia of work!) will be considered "obsolete" by the coming generation and another cyle of wheel reinvention will begin, tossing away man-centuries worth of polished, working code on the sole ground that it's C++.<p>It's not like C++ is going anywhere anytime soon, (Some serious infrastructure reportedly still runs on COBOL after all!) but what if we could finally settle down on a technology for a certain kind of problem and focus <i>all</i> our energy on building new stuff? Wouldn't that be <i>grand</i>?<p>I wonder whether there's another industry that keeps reinventing itself every 20 to 30 years and still gets away with it.