Graydon Hoare Reveals Rust Roadmap: What Awaits the Language in 10 Years?

Rust creator talks about plans for the next 10 years

At the RustConf 2023 conference in Berlin, Rust team lead engineer Graydon Hoare presented an ambitious roadmap for the language's development through 2033. According to Hoare, over the past 8 years Rust has revolutionized systems programming, but "we are only at the beginning of the journey."

Key milestones of the plan:

• Async model 2.0 (2024–2025): A complete overhaul of async/await to reduce overhead. Async code performance is expected to increase by 30–40% through inlining and eliminating dynamic dispatch.
• SIMD support at the language level (2026): Introduction of a stable API for vector instructions (AVX-512, Neon) without unsafe code. Tests show data processing acceleration of up to 5x.
• Static borrow analyzer (2027): A new reference checking module that will work at compile time without running the program. The team estimates this will reduce false positives from the borrow checker by 60%.
• Integration with WebAssembly 3.0 (2028): Support for multithreading and direct memory access in WASM modules. This will pave the way for porting Unreal Engine to the browser platform.

Expert quote: "Rust is already used in the Linux kernel (6.1+), in the Firefox browser (CSS engine), and in AWS infrastructure. The next step is to displace C++ in game engines and embedded systems. By 2033, Rust should become the standard for high-load services," Hoare stated.

Context: According to the Stack Overflow 2023 survey, Rust ranked first in popularity among developers (78% of respondents wanted to learn it). However, its share in production projects is currently only 12% compared to 35% for C++. The roadmap is specifically aimed at closing this gap.

Recall that in 2023, the Rust Foundation announced the allocation of $2 million in grants for tool development (IDEs, linters, benchmarks). The full text of the roadmap is available in the RFC repository on GitHub.