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General purpose languages are a tough sell these days. Rust is tailored towards a niche and that's OK

• Refefer 7y ago
  Systems Languages are considered niche these days?
  • ludamad 7y ago
    But it's not the first systems language, so it does need to carve a niche in that space
• smt88 7y ago
  What is Rust's niche? What excites me about it is that it is becoming a general purpose ecosystem. A few libs are missing, but that's changing rapidly.
• hombre_fatal 7y ago
  > Rust is tailored towards a niche and that's OK I encourage people to try writing run of the mill blocking code with Rust instead of diving immediately into futures and thread pools and streams just as if you were writing run of the mill Python. It's generally 1:1 equivalent to the code I would've written in another language. It's a general purpose programming language where most of the learning curve is in more advanced topics like concurrency, streams, and how to multiplex over thread pools. You can ignore them at the start, just like you can in Python.