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Should Rust replace C/C++ in industrial and educational level? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by Fissionami@lemmygrad.ml to c/rust@lemmy.ml

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I'm not a programmer (or just a beginner one)
So just wanted to know if it is possible and will happen in the near future. Isn't C/C++ decades old and has some good amount of limitations?

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[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't rust adoption pretty good already. Earlier it only had a large base of opinionated groupies but a lot of corporations are using it now.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

It's certainly getting some use in industry, yes. There are also some efforts to teach it in higher ed, first as more of an elective and then maybe replacing C/C++ in the intro courses. However, I think it will take a while to gain traction. Take the situation on my team. I would love to use Rust for a project, but that's reliant on someone else learning Rust.

On the academic side of things, we have a professor involved with Rust Edu. He's been teaching a Rust Programming course for a few years now, but he's looking down the road a few years. The instructor who teaches the intro classes will retire eventually, so that would be a natural transition point. It's these human and institutional factors that play a larger role at this point.