[gchp]

My background is primarily web development, however I've been writing a text editor in rust for a few months now. Prior to that, I had never written any software outside of the web.

Honestly, its not such a big change once you get into it. I'd encourage you to just give it a go, build something just for fun with it. Be it a command line tool, game, whatever. My experience has shown me that just because you've only been involved in web development, by no means limits you from systems/low level development!

[MrBra]

To me it's more like s/he asked if they could build web apps with it, not about their chance to like it considering they come from web apps.