RUST'S FUTURE

Question

After the white paper publication from the white house should every low level developer learn rust?

Answer 1

It's always a good strategy to learn additional languages if you can. It makes you more versatile. If companies in the future decide to use Rust in their codebase, at least you wouldn't be starting from scratch.

Learning Rust makes you more aware of the complexity of memory management.

Even if you end up not using it much, it makes you more mindful of memory leaks, resource allocation and error handling.

You can still use your favorite language for other projects. Rust is not going to 'end' all other languages. it might be even be the wake up call for established languages to fortify their weak points. improvement is always a good thing.

Answer 2

No lol. The press release was much broader, not just "use rust". Rust was just presented as an example of a language that solves the problem.

Imo ppl should definitely learn how to use C and have some experience with it. Even if you will not use it im employment, the experience will help u regardless of what u are using.

As for rust, its worth learning, but its neither "the" future or a neccessity.