> It would be funny if the crypto bubble burst and took the rust bubble with it.
It's probably not likely at all. While Rust's correctness guarantees through ownership checking can be approximated by other programming languages through garbage collectors, it is not a widely understood fact that Rust mutability checking is also a great tool for multi-threaded programming, very challenging to get right even by veteran programmers. On top of that, Rust not only features syntax that's quite modern and ergonomic (analogous to Swift) with elements of functional programming, but Rust also offers modern abstraction-based programming constructs through traits (analogous to Swift Protocol-Oriented Programming). Even the ever C-advocating Linus Torvalds has already agreed to allow Rust as a second language within the Linux kernel. IMHO, Rust is not just a bubble - it will probably only keep growing in popularity.
It's probably not likely at all. While Rust's correctness guarantees through ownership checking can be approximated by other programming languages through garbage collectors, it is not a widely understood fact that Rust mutability checking is also a great tool for multi-threaded programming, very challenging to get right even by veteran programmers. On top of that, Rust not only features syntax that's quite modern and ergonomic (analogous to Swift) with elements of functional programming, but Rust also offers modern abstraction-based programming constructs through traits (analogous to Swift Protocol-Oriented Programming). Even the ever C-advocating Linus Torvalds has already agreed to allow Rust as a second language within the Linux kernel. IMHO, Rust is not just a bubble - it will probably only keep growing in popularity.