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Comment by cardanome

Rust has brought so many great ideas into the programming mainstream. It is a shame that it has also attracted such a community around it that seems to project all sorts of hopes and wishes into the language.

I don't get how someone could think making a CRUD app in Rust could ever be a good idea (beyond hobby projects). That is just not playing to the strengths of the languages at all.

If you CAN use a language with automatic garbage collection for your project, do that. Always. If not, sure, Rust or whatever else language is in that space can be a good choice for embedded development or game dev or whatever. That should be common sense. No need for an article.

I hope for the sake of Rust that the hype around it will die soon so that it can become a pragmatic choice for certain projects.

parent cardanome 3 years ago

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