Rust Language Dropped by Open Source Projects curl and Prisma

Rust faces challenges as projects like curl and Prisma drop support. Discover why developers regret adopting Rust despite its speed and safety advantages.

For a moment, the Rust programming language found itself in a string of deprecations.

As a systems programming language, Rust focuses on safety, especially concurrency safety.

It is a multi-paradigm language that supports functional, imperative, and generic programming paradigms, with syntax similar to C and C++.

At the end of December, Daniel Stenberg, the creator of the well-known open-source project curl, announced that support for the Rust-based Hyper HTTP backend would be discontinued, with all related code completely removed. This move attracted widespread attention in the developer community.

"The journey is coming to an end. The experiment is over. We tried, but we failed."

In 2020, Stenberg began adding support for an alternative HTTP backend in curl, using a Rust-based library called Hyper.

His idea was to introduce an alternative internal HTTP implementation, enabling curl/libcurl to use it instead of its native implementation.