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This feels a bit like complaining that a tank is badly designed because nobody drives them on the highway... My understanding is that Rust was designed to be a
by a_c_s 4y ago
This feels a bit like complaining that a tank is badly designed because nobody drives them on the highway...
My understanding is that Rust was designed to be a safe(er) language to write low-level system code than C/C++, not to compete with Python/Ruby/Java for web development applications.
- pjmlp 4y agoTrue, yet what you see around HN and other places are people trying to use it for web development.
- netizen-936824 4y agoFront end or back end? I see nothing wrong with rust on the back end, not sure how it would even work on the front
- pjmlp 4y agoWebAssembly.
- crabbygrabby 4y agoBingo, it's a true systems language. That said, the fact that people can and do write web applications(for practical reasons) with it kind of says something about it's breadth.
- pjmlp 4y agoThe whole point of system languages is that they reach the whole stack.
- sph 4y agoI'm not complaining about Rust. It's a very good language. I'm complaining about everybody on programming forums, including HN, seeing Rust as the replacement for most, if not all languages. My opinion is that Rust's ideal problem space is much narrower than people think.