[tines]

> So far the only solid use case for Rust that I have seen in applications where security is extremely important.

Playing devil's advocate, when is security not extremely important, except maybe in throwaway bash script-type applications?

[ronsor]

* Toy one-off scripts, not even shell scripts necessarily

* Small things for one's personal use or local network use only

* Quickly prototyped experiments, as long as they're not used in production

[cshimmin]

* academic/scientific research

[TillE]

Games. The attack surface for third-party input is very limited, and you can just secure those bits rather than adopting a new language for the entire program.

Like, you need to be able to sandbox mods if they're a thing, and Rust's memory safety only handles a tiny part of that.

[tines]

Multiplayer games have huge attack surfaces.

[ZiiS]

Single player games maybe, cheating in multiplayer games can be big business.