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I love Rust and I've been following it for a while now, hoping to use it more in my line of work. However, I still find that support for Rust on Android and iOS is still lacking, compared to C and C++. These platforms are technically supported, but they aren't tier one and don't seem to be widely used.

This doesn't matter that much for hobby programming, but for production work I'd be happier if there was a clear and easy path for adding Rust to the build system, and having the tools integrate into my chain, with great support for debugging and testing. I'm happy to deal with the extra work myself when I'm doing it for fun, but otherwise, compared to the first class support in Xcode or even the NDK, Rust is still far behind.

For me to feel comfortable in taking the risk in choosing a non-vendor-sponsored language like Rust, I need to be confident that my tools will work and won't break on me, integrate poorly or fail in unexpected ways. If Rust was on par with C/C++ support, it would definitely be a very compelling solution.