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[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 47 points 4 days ago

Rust is actually awesome in many ways. No always the right solution, but nice to have in your toolbox.

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 days ago

Where would you say Rust isn't the right solution?

We always hear how great Rust is, but I'd be curious to know where it isn't.

[-] tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

We always hear how great Rust is, but I’d be curious to know where it isn’t.

In any project that's sufficiently advanced and written in any other language. You don't simply do a rewrite of 100k+ LOC just because you want to use Rust.
Somewhere where you'd rather use a scripting language like Python. I.e., rapid prototyping or gluing together some infra components.
A situation where your team's expertise is in some other language.
A situation where a library/framework is native/only available for a certain language.

Few of these are strictly technical requirements. It's obvious that you can use almost any language to do almost anything, including Rust, if that's what you prefer. However, the context matters in the real world.

All this being said, I wish I had a chance to write Rust professionally. It's a neat language.