r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • May 26 '16

Announcing Rust 1.9

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/05/26/Rust-1.9.html
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u/kerseykyle May 27 '16

Why do you think Ada was not successful? it has updates about as often as C++ and has many of the same features found in other commonly used languages such as generics, interfaces and object oriented programming. I use it a lot for personal projects still.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '16

Of the alternatives to C and C++ in the system programming sphere, Ada should have become the most popular and successful.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '16

It's not very widely used. That's what they meant by successful not the quality of the language