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I am learning Rust currently and it's fascinating. The concepts are very different and forces me to thing differently. I hope that Rust soon supports things l

I am learning Rust currently and it's fascinating. The concepts are very different and forces me to thing differently. I hope that Rust soon supports things like kernel programming, asynchronous networking, GUI programming etc. that C++ is so good at.

zanny 8y ago
Rust already supports kernel programming, that is what Redox is. You can do async networking today on stable with tokio and futures or on nightly with futures-await and prototype async/await syntax. You can do GUI programming with gtk-rs. Its pretty unlikely anyone is going to take on the monumental project of "write a software GUI kitchen sink suite like Qt, but in Rust" any time soon. Not because you can't, but because such projects are by their nature at minimum millions of LOCs.