• vga@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    Rust is fearlessly upholding the whole thing even without touching it. Incredible!

  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    Rust is actually awesome in many ways. No always the right solution, but nice to have in your toolbox.

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Where would you say Rust isn’t the right solution?

      We always hear how great Rust is, but I’d be curious to know where it isn’t.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Rust provides safety and protection.

        Rust isn’t as rapid as other options, has less library support, and porting existing code is relatively difficult.

        IMO because of the workarounds you need to do to handle the memory safety, you end up with a lot more hard to solve bugs than you do with conventional languages. It should be noted however that the bugs don’t end up being security vulnerabilities like they do in conventional systems.

        If you have something that needs to be structurally sound and/or you have enough talented people willing to work on it, it’s a great option. If it needs to be fast and cheap and you don’t have a gaggle of rust developers on hand and it’s already written in another language, it might not be the best solution.

  • LordKitsuna@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I get the joke, but rust is actually pretty heavily used in the backend of services theae days. Cloudflare, Amazon, Dropbox, just to randomly name a few off the top my head. Have pretty heavily invested it into their back ends for more reliable service.

    • CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Over the last one or two years I feel like Rust haters have gotten even louder than the Rust evangelists. For every person who declares “Rewrite it in Rust!” I see two or three people saying how they hate Rust or how pointless it is and so on.