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You're missing the point. The point is that Rust came from Mozilla. Its mind-share started with web people and is expanding from there. What I'm trying to get a
by _bxg1 6y ago
You're missing the point. The point is that Rust came from Mozilla. Its mind-share started with web people and is expanding from there. What I'm trying to get across is that those social forces can matter more for adoption than just the tech's appropriateness, considered in a vacuum.
- setr 6y agoIn that case, it came from Mozilla for working on a web browser, with primary goals of security, building sandboxes & language runtimes (js), and replacing an application-level cross-platform C++ core. Which is very different than "web people", which in my mind implies webdev -- html/css/js + API server/db/caching backend. Which also further explains why WASM is so far along (sandbox, security), much better than any association with webdev itself; but not kernel-level system development. (But if the web browser is an userspace OS... then it's probably not that far from it)
- type0 6y agoOff course it's a system language, there are even some that try to build an OS in Rust https://www.redox-os.org/ https://www.redox-os.org/