What Rust Can Do That Other Languages Can't
I spent an afternoon messing about with Rust and found it infuriating. The compiler kept (quite rightly) telling me how crap my code was and wouldn't compile it for me. I found it frustrating but thoroughly educational.For systems programmers, Rust looks a fantastic option. For line of business apps, it is inaccessible and the safety dial is turned up too far. But then I guess that is because Rust isn't intended to be a general purpose language for writing line of business apps?I can see it being useful for writing platform neutral, gnarly code and offer easy hooks for popular, managed languages such as JavaSript, C#, Java et al to hook into.Outside of systems programming, I wonder if Rust will be part of a silent revolution?