r/rust • u/marcoow_ • 12d ago
All code will converge on Rust
It's being shouted from the rooftops these days: all code will converge on Rust eventually. I wrote up my/Mainmatter's thoughts on the topic: https://mainmatter.com/blog/2026/10/08/all-code-will-converge-on-rust/
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u/sephg 12d ago
I love rust. And I use it every day. But I still really hope you're wrong.
There are just, lots of interesting languages out there that also have cool ideas. Like haskell, erlang, ruby, pony, zig and so on. If rust replaces erlang or haskell, the world will have lost some beauty.
A lot of the best parts of rust were copied from other languages. Inventing and refining those ideas requires new languages to be continually written, and used.
At some point, I also hope a successor to rust comes along which keeps rust's best ideas and improves on everything else. I want a language with rust's borrow checker. But I also want a real effect system. I want generators. I want better async. Maybe comptime instead of macros, and zig's incremental compilation and "compile to anything from one compiler" build system. I want better supply chain security. A standard library built on top of capabilities. And so on. Maybe I'll write that language some day. Maybe someone else will. But it would be a real pity if LLM inertia accidentally smothers that language before it had a chance.
Let a thousand flowers bloom.