[smoldesu]

I haven't had many issues with it. My development cycle has normally involved getting the basic functionality of my program to work, then adding a UI layer over it with the GTK crate. In terms of how fast it is to prototype/iterate, I could very easily manipulate and edit the UI file in Glade, then rebuild the program in only a couple seconds to test the result.

>Frontend code moves too much and quick prototyping/iteration is more important than memory control.

You can have both, really: Rust makes a lot of compromises on it's debug builds, but it compiles lightning fast. As I said above, you can change your program and see how it looks in realtime by simply dropping "cargo run" into the shell. There's not much I can do for you here except tell you to see for yourself.

[christiansakai]

I see. Last time I saw Rust compilation speed isn’t that fast.

[smoldesu]

First time compilation is notoriously slow, since Rust has to compile your dependencies into object files, and to make "release" binary, it has to re-compile those same dependencies to make a statically linked and optimized executable. The actual debug process is fairly quick though, since it can just link the deps to a lazily compiled binary for debugging purposes.