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Do you see Rust as a language that people will write the business domain type applications in or as a supplement to languages like Ruby, Python, etc. to write t
by rubiquity 13y ago
Do you see Rust as a language that people will write the business domain type applications in or as a supplement to languages like Ruby, Python, etc. to write those "gotta have performance here" parts of the application?
- steveklabnik 13y agoThe second ever (that we know of) use of Rust in production is by Tilde, who are using Rust embedded in Ruby for Skylight to help ensure that memory usage stays down and to get more consistent performance. Garbage collection while doing performance monitoring is bad news. I'm not entirely sure yet. I wrote another post that touches on this: http://words.steveklabnik.com/rust-is-surprisingly-expressive http://words.steveklabnik.com/rust-is-surprisingly-expressiv... I think that it's possible that Rust might eventually be useful as an application level language. We'll see how it shakes out. We've been in love with scripting languages for the past few years, but now their drawbacks are becoming more apparent. Look at all the Rubyists and Pythonistas flocking to Go, for example... Interesting times indeed.
- pnathan 13y agoI'm not the person you asked, but I see Rust as making a play in these areas: - embedded systems - games - high performance + high correctness environments Personally, I don't see it as a web-app or line of business app development languages. But it will allow you to create the components that the webapp and LoB apps call into. But I imagine if some people really like Rust for those purposes, they will start building the libraries and code infrastructure to make it easy and away we go.