Wait, what? How? It compiles down to bare metal without a runtime. People write OSes and program microcontrollers with it. For any arbitrary C program, it’s possible to write Rust code such that it compiles down to the same bytecode. Am I missing something?
One you use to manipulate the system / solve problem efficiently, vs. creating GUIs. Which has heavy repercussions on what types of developers use it, how the ecosystem and language is built. One metric to distinguish them is new features /year; admin + hacker types want a stable & clever interface, companies and UI devs new features. And yeah, Rust is a bit of both of them, but has all the characteristics of the later.
I have the feeling, you soon need a meta-language or extensive IDE-help to even use it. Just like C++.
edit: In hindsight, this sounds more silly than i thought. There was a great article about it i can’t find anymore, with the conclusion, that Rust is no systems language by that metric.
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what’s your definition of a system’s language?
Wait, what? How? It compiles down to bare metal without a runtime. People write OSes and program microcontrollers with it. For any arbitrary C program, it’s possible to write Rust code such that it compiles down to the same bytecode. Am I missing something?
Guess i’ve a different understanding of systems language.
Wait, I’m so confused, what’s your definition of a systems language?
One you use to manipulate the system / solve problem efficiently, vs. creating GUIs. Which has heavy repercussions on what types of developers use it, how the ecosystem and language is built. One metric to distinguish them is
new features / year; admin + hacker types want a stable & clever interface, companies and UI devs new features. And yeah, Rust is a bit of both of them, but has all the characteristics of the later.I have the feeling, you soon need a meta-language or extensive IDE-help to even use it. Just like C++.
edit: In hindsight, this sounds more silly than i thought. There was a great article about it i can’t find anymore, with the conclusion, that Rust is no systems language by that metric.
What does it mean to you then?
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