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I’m surprised to see library support so high on the “needs to improve” list. It makes sense when compared to the rich Python ecosystem. Coming from a C++ backg

• pritambaral 8y ago
  > Coming from a C++ background I consider the Rust library ecosystem to be one of its strong points already! In a sense, I agree with you. Certain kinds of features available in the Rust ecosystem are much more easily available than in the C++ world, and there's been a lively pace of articles published about libraries and applications in Rust. But another sense I got from looking at libraries to use myself and applications to learn from was that the ecosystem is quite smaller and ... not quite as matured as the C/C++ ecosystem (I'm _completely_ ignoring FFI for this argument). Of course, all of this is completely natural, and I'm simply not expecting them Rust ecosystem to be competitive with the much older C/C++ ecosystem(s), but this realization does temper my excitement with Rust a bit.
  • forrestthewoods 8y ago
    Some of my excitement is for potential rather than current offerings. But having a gamedev background we tend to roll most things ourselves. C++ is such a hodgepodge of mixed build systems that adding a moderately sized library is a huge PITA.
• jayflux 8y ago
  I have a feeling some of it is due to all the "Why isn't X in the std library" questions being bundled into library support. If this is the case then its a bit misleading as it could be loads of people asking for a single thing, rather than people asking for better library support in general. I don't think the Rust Standard lib is too bad, so i'm also surprised its so high up.