Actually, even "modern" C++ is a step up from plain C. That being said, I am really looking forward for Rust.

LOL "* In theory. Rust is a work-in-progress and may do anything it likes up to and including eating your laundry."

It's a shame to see that comment has been downvoted. That's a quote directly from the bottom-right corner of the Rust website itself!

Rust is promising, without a doubt. But it's not yet truly usable in the same sense that C, C++, Java, Python, Haskell, Go and so many other languages are.

Maybe it'll start to get to that point once 1.0 is released, once we see at least some language and library stability, and then perhaps some adoption. But that just hasn't happened yet.

I downvoted it because "LOL" is not the kind of comment I'd like to see here. The point could have been made in a more substantial way. Like you just did.

Wow sorry I can't laugh at something jeez. So, you have never in your life just felt like re-posting a quote off something and just added a little something to it to show the spirit in which it was meant to be. Now you are just being nitpicky and to be honest rude in a sense. I have just joined this community I am trying to fit in and you just come along and see the comment and you "don't like it" because it's short, sweet and too the point. I am laughing at the comment of the programmer of rust for the quote he put on his site and now you have just totally bashed me because you felt it necessary to not like my simplistic comment. Wow.

> you have never in your life just felt like re-posting a quote off something ...

I do, but I do that on Twitter, because, as you've found out, HN will downvote you into oblivion.

> I have just joined this community I am trying to fit in

Ah ha! Sorry, I didn't see that: usually, new users are in green. (also, your account is 163 days old?) If you haven't checked it out, you should check out the community guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

For what it's worth, I am not trying to 'bash [you]'... but I don't think this was a great comment. Try to keep them more substantial here. Different forums are appropriate for different kinds of discourse, and short little comments are generally not taken very well here.

The same happens to "+1", "thanks", and "interesting!" comments. If you can't write more than two sentences, you probably shouldn't post.

What some one - I think kibwen - has brought up is that early adopters can benefit in the sense that the language design is still in flux. So these early adopters can uncover weaknesses in the design, before they get to the stage where they have to consider backwards compatibility.

So although early adopters might not get any useful software out of learning Rust at this stage, they might indirectly improve their future Rust code by having a small influence on the direction of the language.