Why Your Rust Adoption Will Probably Fail (And How To Beat the Odds)

90 points dmlmcken 28 comments

Decent arguments but I think this juxtaposition sums it up well within the "Pay Now or Pay Later" section:

"Indeed, the teams that succeed expect upfront pain and plan for it. They budget time for learning. They invest in tooling early. They accept that the existing Java/Python playbook doesn’t apply, he said.

The teams that fail treat Rust like a drop-in replacement and then act surprised when it’s not."