Rust Migration Barriers and How to Overcome Them
Rust’s benefits are clear—but what keeps teams from migrating? Chief among obstacles is the learning curve: developers accustomed to garbage-collected languages often find Rust’s borrow-checker restrictive, delaying full productivity by several months.
Another friction point is compile-time performance. Though parallel compilation has trimmed build times by ~40% since 2023, Rust still lags behind C++ on incremental builds.
Success stories recommend incremental migration: refactor isolated components, use FFI to connect Rust with existing C/C++ modules, and experiment on non-critical systems to build confidence. Pair programming and internal pilots, coupled with robust training resources like community learning paths, can help teams ramp up without halting feature delivery.
