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You can bet your house that people will be trying to use Rust for general purpose reasons such as web apps etc.

• viraptor 11y ago
  I already did, and it works pretty well. You spend more time developing, but the type system prevents lots of silly runtime mistakes. (which you'd spend time debugging later on otherwise) I wrote web apps in dynamic languages like everyone else and know that there are situations where you practically just ignore many potential failures and cannot be sure your code runs in practice, even with ~100% coverage. Writing in a language with proper types helps a lot. Being forced to acknowledge every error returned is great. The only time I had to think about memory management was during integration of database connection pooling and the web framework, but that's just because I was one of the first ones to try. Otherwise memory management doesn't get in the way at all.
• Hytosys 11y ago
  Reporting for roll call. Once you get cope with abandoning all of the metaprogramming-heavy APIs a la ActiveRecord that have been front and center in pop web dev, it's quite lovely. The only thing that seems to slow down my work is the lack of a developed web ecosystem for Rust. My hypothesis was that the type system is be able to benefit practically all domains. Personally, so far, I've become a cautious believer.