> But C++ and C developers would never switch to anything else
There are many people who considered it and rejected, or even moved to other languages. C++ developers with existing large codebases may never switch to anything else, but that doesn't mean that the rest of the world is stuck. People are writing databases, browsers, operating systems and device drivers in rust right now and eventually some of those will become successful project defining state of the art.
> I'd like to see a version of Rust with garbage collection. The language itself is good.
There are myriads of languages with GC. There are very few modern ones without it.
There are many people who considered it and rejected, or even moved to other languages. C++ developers with existing large codebases may never switch to anything else, but that doesn't mean that the rest of the world is stuck. People are writing databases, browsers, operating systems and device drivers in rust right now and eventually some of those will become successful project defining state of the art.
> I'd like to see a version of Rust with garbage collection. The language itself is good.
There are myriads of languages with GC. There are very few modern ones without it.