What do you use Rust for?

[coldsandstorm97]

So, I am a 18 year old teenager who just started learning programming for about 1.5 years in polytechnic (its sort of like high school, but its more to the technical side rather then academic).

I came across Rust while reading some forum on C++ and I am curious about what other programmers use Rust for.

I understand the features and benefits that it brings, I am just curious about what people are doing with it.

[thekeemo]

Its an alternative to c++. Basically the same with a few format changes.

[givingtnt]

I was about to say : Make Thermite.

 

but I guess it doesn't apply here >.>

[Bloodyvalley]

it's the worst game ever.

 

 

i dont even play it

[madknight3]

Rust is a systems programming language focused on three goals: safety, speed, and concurrency. It maintains these goals without having a garbage collector, making it a useful language for a number of use cases other languages aren’t good at: embedding in other languages, programs with specific space and time requirements, and writing low-level code, like device drivers and operating systems. It improves on current languages targeting this space by having a number of compile-time safety checks that produce no runtime overhead, while eliminating all data races. Rust also aims to achieve ‘zero-cost abstractions’ even though some of these abstractions feel like those of a high-level language. Even then, Rust still allows precise control like a low-level language would.

 

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Rust hasn't been at official release for very long so I'm not sure how many people are using it professionally yet. It looks like it has a good community behind it, and it's continuing to be worked on, but it takes time for a language to mature and for people to make tools and libraries for it.