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by bluejekyll 2758 days ago
Right. I won’t use Rust to build hardware, only software.

I have many hammers, one for small nails, on for large nails, a rubber one for joining things, even large sledge hammers. Each has its job.

But if I could only have one, that was flexible enough to use across all situations where I need to hit things, that would be great.
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pjmlp 2758 days ago
Rust still has a lot to catch up on Qt, JavaFX, Android, Cocoa, Forms, WPF, UWP, Unreal, Unity, Hibernate, EF, code generation/reverse engineering from architecture modelling tools, ....

Personally, as polyglot developer, I rather use the best tool for each part of the stack.

Currently I see Rust better taylored for the low level layers that Windows, Android, macOS, iOS, MicroEJ still write in C or C++.

Do you also plan to replace SQL with Rust?

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bluejekyll 2758 days ago
I see all of the gaps you mention as things that are being worked on activily. For some of the things you mention there are already decent Rust libraries: Hibernate => Deisel; Unity/Unreal => there are a bunch of things being worked on eg Piston and others (not yet fully featured of course); code generation => macros_rules! and proc macros, and custom derives can be extended to support this; javafx => yew?.

I’m not saying there are things available for all of these areas, nor am I saying that I think necessarily others should choose to rely on the language in some of these areas, unless you want to directly contribute to filling in those gaps (there are many people who are doing this). What I am saying, is that based on my experience with the language, especially in the context of Web Development, I would pick it for frontend and backend development at this point.

I agree that there are areas it really shines in right now, and if you’re working in those areas than I definitely push people in that direction. But yeah, for native GUI stuff, if you need to do more that toy stuff, it’s not ready yet.

> Do you also plan to replace SQL with Rust?

I’ve considered it! As a way of more replacing DB side procedures: https://github.com/clia/pgxr (an example of one option). What we can do with SQL is use code generators to type check the SQL at compile time.

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