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Just wait until Rust (or lots of new languages) get mature and start getting pushed in weird directions by niche use cases.

In addition, languages always need to be seen improving in order to hold the attention of all the magpie developers. Who wants to use an old, stable language, amiright?

Everyone will want their own small syntactic sugar to make their own ideas more easily expressed in the language they are currently using. It is just part of the lifecycle of programming languages.

I am willing to predict that if Rust is still around in 30 years it will be unrecognizable to present-day developers, and newcomers at that time will decry it as 'an agglomeration of every feature under the sun'.



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