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the__alchemist • today at 2:34 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

With certain rough edges like complex traits and Async aside, rust is an S-tier lang in several domains. Of interest:

  - Embedded
  - PC desktop applications
  - Computationally-intense scientific programming. (Chem, structural bio etc)
  - OSes, drivers etc
  - High-performance tasks in general. CPU, GPU, etc.
It's not a memory-safety one-trick pony; it's a well-rounded lang which has learned from its predecessors.

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jdcasale • today at 2:56 PM

Yeah I'd written some rust ~ 10 years ago when the language was very different and that led me to believe that it was a 'great within it's niche' sort of thing for a long time, but after spending the last couple of years with it as a daily driver I think it's a pretty great general-purpose language.

The one really common gotcha with rust is that when trying to write concurrent code, newbies tend to throw Arc<RwLock<T>> goo around everywhere, and they end up with the world's shittiest garbage collector.

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mgaunard • today at 2:47 PM

All those applications area sensitive to asynchronous programming.

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bigfishrunning • today at 2:43 PM

Honestly, the only domains that I think rust isn't suitable for are:

* rapid-prototyping, where javascript and python are still top-tier

* adding scriptability to existing programs, where lua and scheme (and python) are popular

* Server-side API implementation (rust is usable here, but I think Go fits the slot better)

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varjag • today at 2:42 PM

Calculate ackermann(4,4), make no mistakes.