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Rust's niche is speed and reliability, which means being pretty good at many domains. That might sound like it can be replaced, but not actually. Let's take an example of a developer tool - ruff. It's a linter for Python that aims to replace a bunch of tools written in Python - Pylint, Flake8 and others. The sales pitch is - it does the same thing as the others, except it's 10-100x faster than the others. You could rewrite it in another language, but people aren't replacing ruff unless it's comparable in speed. Do you get it? Speed is a critical feature in some contexts and it's hard to beat Rust here. Not impossible, but hard. Other examples include turbopack, swc, buck2.
Rust's niche is speed and reliability, which means being pretty good at many domains. That might sound like it can be replaced, but not actually. Let's take an example of a developer tool - ruff. It's a linter for Python that aims to replace a bunch of tools written in Python - Pylint, Flake8 and others. The sales pitch is - it does the same thing as the others, except it's 10-100x faster than the others. You could rewrite it in another language, but people aren't replacing ruff unless it's comparable in speed. Do you get it? Speed is a critical feature in some contexts and it's hard to beat Rust here. Not impossible, but hard. Other examples include turbopack, swc, buck2.
Rust's niche is speed and reliability, which means being pretty good at many domains. That might sound like it can be replaced, but not actually. Let's take an example of a developer tool - ruff. It's a linter for Python that aims to replace a bunch of tools written in Python - Pylint, Flake8 and others. The sales pitch is - it does the same thing as the others, except it's 10-100x faster than the others. You could rewrite it in another language, but people aren't replacing ruff unless it's comparable in speed. Do you get it? Speed is a critical feature in some contexts and it's hard to beat Rust here. Not impossible, but hard. Other examples include turbopack, swc, buck2.