Comment by sshine

> "Vibe coding" will be a more colorful and better remembered mile marker of this lousy decade in computers than Rust, which will be an obscurity in an appendix in 100 years.

I doubt it.

I'm teaching a course on C this fall. As textbook I've chosen "Modern C" by Jens Gustedt (updated for C23).

I'm asked by students "Why don't you choose K&R like everyone else?"

And while the book is from 1978 (ANSI C edition in 1988), and something I've read joyously more than once, I'm reminded of how decades of C programmers have been doing things "the old way" because that's how they're taught. As a result, the world is made of old C programs.

With this momentum of religiously rewriting things in Rust we see in the last few years (how many other languages have rewritten OpenSSL and the GNU coreutils?), the amount of things we depend on that was incidentally rewritten in Rust grows significantly.

Hopefully people won't be writing Rust in 100 years. Since 100 years ago mathematicians were programming mechanical calculators and analog computers, and today kids are making games. But I bet you a whole lot of infrastructure still runs Rust.

In fact, anything that is convenient to Vibe code in the coming years will drown out other languages by volume. Rust ain't so bad for vibe coding.