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I'd like to see if Rust is still around in 10 years and then look before we declare the winner on this.... All software has bugs.

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It's been around for roughly six or eight already, depending on how you count. Of course, pre-1.0 was a different thing, but still. Ten years is not that long a time.

(I still agree that results at that point will be more interesting then speculating today.)

> It's been around for roughly six or eight already, depending on how you count.

I don't think you get to play on both sides of that fence. Some of your team has been working on Rust for that long, but I doubt any code with sigils compiles, and I doubt there were many large projects using it then. I started my stopwatch at May 2015.

> Ten years is not that long a time.

Totally agree.

> I still agree that results at that point will be more interesting then speculating today.

We'll see on May 2025. :-)

Yeah that's why I said it depends. :) periodization is tough. 18 months, four years, six years, and 9ish years are all valid, depending on how. What I mean to say is that it's already been quite a while, and now that it's making its way into distros and required for building Firefox and all that, I think it has even more of a chance of sticking around for a long time, given that it was around for quite a while when it wasn't even a viable "real" language. I don't mean to insinuate that today's Rust is mega mature because those old Rusts exist.

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