and yet rust is very complicated and plenty of people read the rust book to learn it.
my first paid software gig was writing perl and i still use it for text processing quick jobs and such but the truth is it’s just a weird language full of bizarre conventions that is a bad choice for building large systems. better languages replaced it
You're right, Rust is an interesting counterexample to this trend I'm ranting against in years. I'm a fan of it. Whether it ever reaches adoption beyond the tiny fragment of people who dive deeply into technologies anyway remains to be seen, however. I've noticed that the backlash that it's too complex is already starting to build up.
my first paid software gig was writing perl and i still use it for text processing quick jobs and such but the truth is it’s just a weird language full of bizarre conventions that is a bad choice for building large systems. better languages replaced it