Alexey
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Nobody cares about the language something is written in for casual use, and even less so for the UI toolkit you used. Yet Rust zealots seem to put those things front and center for some reason. From the outside it seems like they want to only use software written in Rust. And it's not like those projects are bad, just the "marketing" is missing the point. Same goes for adding "rust" tags on code forges, just why you'd do that unless it's a library or language-specific tooling
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@yyp Nobody cares about the language, but some people care about the quality.
Rust provides some guarantees to developers that other languages don't.
So, to me "rust" is short for "going to crash less" and "not full of exploits, and "can still be fast".
To my Rust zealot side, it also means "you can turn it into your own easily because you don't have to learn a lot of new stuff". Code forges are full of non-casual users, after all.
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dorotaC
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@mobiuscog @yyp It's worth remembering that most other high level languages are just as memory-safe and nearly as fast (Java is JIT-compiled these days).
Not everything is CPU-bound or needs a solid type system, so Rust has viable alternatives.
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