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There is nothing about the Rust language that makes it ill-suited to higher level work. It's a much easier, safer, language than C++ (which is used for higher l

There is nothing about the Rust language that makes it ill-suited to higher level work. It's a much easier, safer, language than C++ (which is used for higher level development in MFC) or Objective-C (which is used for higher level development in Cocoa). At this stage though, the library support for higher level functions is lacking – mostly due to relative youth of the language. At this stage, you won't find much support for UI code and there's a relatively small number of libraries supporting HTTP servers and services. You could write bindings for these things yourself (and they'll certainly be written over time) but you won't find it out-of-the-box right now.

dbaupp 13y ago
FWIW, it's worth being precise on what "easier" means: Rust isn't necessarily an easier language to get started in than C++ and so on. Like Haskell, the compiler complains at you, and complains a lot. (Which can be rather discouraging for a beginner.) However once you've satisfied the compiler, your program often runs perfectly first time (modulo logic bugs, which a compiler can help with (like warning about dead stores, and mutable variables that aren't mutated... which rustc does) but can't detect or fix in general). This is in stark contrast to C/C++ etc where a program normally needs a liberal application of gdb and valgrind to be safe. Hence: I'd say it's harder to write code but easier to write correct code in Rust.