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In my experience Rust works well as a C/C++ replacement. As a high level language much less so. Go is clearly the better choice for web apps and probably will r

• nicoburns 9y ago
  I'd definitely agree that Go is currently clearly the better choice for web apps. I'm not so sure it will stay that way though. Rust has some really powerful abstraction abilities, which can make for super nice apis. I reckon it will end up like the choice between python/js/php/ruby on the backend, where each have their strength and weaknesses, but none are universally better.
  • hardwaresofton 9y ago
    I agree and disagree, for the reason you stated. I think Rust is a good language for web apps, with the caveat that you must understand the syntax and the power afforded first. That makes the language harder to learn, but for the purposes of webapps that makes it better. If you start from bare micro-framework (set a route, attach a handler), you're eventually going to write some generic function that fetches an entity from a data store. In Go, this becomes a bit of a kludge (interface{} + casting + etc), but in rust it's robustly supported (traits/generic functions). Of course, if you pick the right library for the database you wouldn't have that issue, but that's just the kind of abstraction/complexity-hiding problem you run into building webapps (from scratch at least) that I think rust is the better tool for. Like I mentoined in another post, basically all the micro-frameworks have the same shape to me at this point: add route(s), add handler function(s), and start the server.