A closer look into the Rust programming language

 Rust is a very new programming language available since 2015. The main problem with Rust is, that its harder to learn than C/C++. Let us describe the situation in detail.

Before the invention of the Rust language, the programming world was divided into beginners languages like Python and Java on the one hand and expert languages like C++, Haskel and Assembly.

A programming language like Python is called a beginner language because its interpreted but not compiled, because there are no datatypes and because the code is easy to read. The disadvantege of Python is well known but for creating prototypes Python is perhaps the best programming language ever invented.

Creating production ready code was mostly done in C++ which is a very efficient language but is hard to write. Rust can be seen as twice as complicated as C++ because it introduces many new concepts and is very different from existing languages like go, java or C#.

The main reason why Rust has become popular is because its newer than the C++ standard. It doesn't provide endless amount of outdated principles but was designed from scratch for productive tasks. So its soem sort of rewrite of the D Language which was also started as a C++ replacement.

In contrast to former C++ replacements like nim, golang and objective c, the Rust language has become more popular. It seems that the demanding learning curve results into efficient software projects which can compete and outperform C++.

The main reason why Rust hasn't replaced C++ yet is because its very new and different, Programmers have to unlearn former knowledge and start from scratch which is a huge obstacle.