[blaenk]

> You would be crazy to write a UI-heavy app in rust. (note: I'm talking about high level DOM-like manipulation, not about rendering engines)

I think the jury is still out on that one. I agree with the current state of things but the potential to ease and facilitate this is tremendous through the use of syntax extensions (procedural macros) which can dramatically simplify that use case. In general I think procedural macros add a _lot_ of versatility/flexibility to the language. I anticipate that there will be a huge boom in that area once they stabilize, and it will catch many people by surprise.

An example of the versatility that they enable is the work-in-progress async/await [0], whereas in other languages they would usually have to be implemented in the language itself. Note that this does not preclude their implementation in the language itself, but since it's a work-in-progress they're able to experiment with them without having to implement them in the language from the beginning.

[0]: https://github.com/alexcrichton/futures-await

[hashmal]

I have to agree, things could change in the future. However, my guts tell me rust GUI libraries/frameworks won't be as great as say, Cocoa, although that's something I would love.