The Mozilla-sponsored Rust language would become more approachable and productive next year, based on a road map published for the platform.
The focus for the upcoming year is improving productivity while retaining an emphasis on fast, reliable code, the road map states. High-level goals include a lower learning curve, a "pleasant" edit-compile-debug cycle, and a solid, but basic, IDE experience. Rust also should provide easy access to high-quality crates, or packages, and be well-equipped for writing robust, high-scale servers.
Current and potential users mention the learning curve, a lack of libraries and IDEs, and general "maturity" concerns as obstacles to Rust's success. Despite these obstacles, people remain generally happy with Rust, the GitHub post said. "Instead, the connecting theme is productivity -- how quickly can I start writing real code? Bring up a team? Prototype and iterate? Debug my code? And so on."