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Web apps or mobile apps. Rust doesn't do so well in the mobile app space.

• saagarjha 7y ago
  On the contrary, a number of people are shipping Rust libraries in their apps today.
  • FridgeSeal 7y ago
    For example: The tokenisers in the HuggingFace libraries are now written in Rust.
• wvenable 7y ago
  I still think web applications massively out-scale mobile apps. The majority of software written is not general purpose consumer level "shink wrap" apps and never was. Still, a very large portion of mobile apps are connecting to some back end service. I think I have exactly one app that stores it's data locally without a server connection (not counting games).
  • pjmlp 7y ago
    Even there Rust needs to compete with the productivity, libraries, IDE support and compile times from JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, .NET and Go. Additionally really don't see a need for having to deal with the borrow checker in distributed computing applications, instead of tracing GC + value types. Rust's ideal place is like where Oracle, Apple, Google and Microsoft are placing C++, OS low level libraries, audio codecs, graphics drivers.
• EugeneOZ 7y ago
  Mobile apps might use APIs too - it means Rust on the server-side.