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Some would say that Rust is a functional language. http://science.raphael.poss.name/rust-for-functional-programmers.html http://science.raphael.poss.name/rust-
by bringtheaction 9y ago
Some would say that Rust is a functional language.
http://science.raphael.poss.name/rust-for-functional-programmers.html http://science.raphael.poss.name/rust-for-functional-program...
Rust has an ecosystem for building web backends.
http://www.arewewebyet.org/ http://www.arewewebyet.org/
Does Rust have the best ecosystem for a web backend, though? I think that will depend on who you ask and what you are looking for specifically.
- steveklabnik 9y agoThird party resources can be sort of out of date; your first link is from 2014, and therefore has a bunch of inaccuracies. Your second was last updated last Octoboer, so not so much, but is still missing out on stuff.
- bringtheaction 9y agoYes, the first link is only for the part about some saying that you could call Rust functional. Should probably have specified that in my original comment.
- DennisP 9y agoDo you have a source that isn't missing stuff, or you could you mention some of the important bits?
- steveklabnik 9y agoSome examples: * the h2 crate was released last week, which adds http2 support to the ecosystem * the frameworks page is missing, off the top of my head, shio and actix. It also includes pencil, which has been abandoned for a long time. * It includes nothing about Rust's fairly recent wasm support and all of the crates that let you work with that In general, this is an extremely active area, with few "winners" so far, and crates.io is adding roughly 23 crates a day, though obviously not all web-related. There's just so much stuff all the time that keeping a curated resource like this up-to-date is a lot of work.
- xstartup 9y agoYea, we already use Rust. Lately, it's a joy to develop in.