Rust, Rust, Rust

[rcjordan]

Clogging my feeds. Is Rust the new PHP or Perl?

Rust Programming Language
https://www.rust-lang.org/

[ergophobe]

No.

Its syntax is similar to that of C++... Rust solves problems that C/C++ developers have been struggling with for a long time: memory errors and concurrent programming. This is seen as its main benefit.

So it's more like the next C# or Java or, well, the next C++

PHP and PERL are friendly to people who don't know how to program and just want to get in and modify a script. Then your mods become bigger and more elaborate. Then you're programming from scratch. That's not a typical path for C++ and, I'm going to guess, Rust.

Also, it's a compiled language, not an interpreted language like PHP and PERL. I think interpreted languages tend to be more accessible as well. So I don't see Rust taking over the web, but more used in application development and high-performance modules that hook into web applications.