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There's a response to your comment in the post: > I feel like Rust is self-defined as a “systems” language, but it’s being used to write web apps and command-l
by bachmeier 2y ago
There's a response to your comment in the post:
> I feel like Rust is self-defined as a “systems” language, but it’s being used to write web apps and command-line tools and all sorts of things.
> This is a little disappointing, but also predictable: the more successful your language, the more people will use your language for things it wasn’t intended for.
> This post still offends many who have tied Rust to their identity, but that’s their problem, not mine.
- mwcampbell 2y agoI think maybe the GP's point is that we should use systems languages, with their focus on efficiency, for things that the OP defines as out of scope, as an antidote to the creeping software bloat that we all like to complain about from time to time. And let's not forget that Word 97 felt bloated in its day, however fondly we may look back on it now.