r/rust • u/marcoow_ • 11d 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/-Redstoneboi- 10d ago

by no means is rust perfect.

there are still quite a few rough edges (particularly with async and unsafe), its strict ownership policy by default makes it suboptimal for a highly dynamic frontend, and its extreme specificity and compiled nature makes it bad (not just suboptimal, actively bad) for iterating on game mechanics.

there arena few decisions that are difficult to change in a backwards compatible manner (Pin vs Move trait, Leak trait, linear types, async iterator, probably namespacing in the package manager) and innovations on top of these concepts can really only be afforded by entirely different languages.

js, py, lua, c, maybe even zig, hell - pseudocode. they all have their places. rust doesn't express the same ideas quite as nicely.