&gt; an avid Rust user puts their money where their mouth is<p>There are lots of people doing this. Look at crates.io. I decided to write a new fully compliant DNS server and client, trust-dns. I work on it in my spare time (it&#x27;s time not money), which is hard with two kids.<p>I&#x27;ve learned a few things. It&#x27;s hard to get it done. There&#x27;s a lot to learn from the rfc&#x27;s. Just because it&#x27;s Rust, doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s easy. There are all the same borrow rules, and I know I have a bunch of TODOs in the code to go fix things like extra clones. The IDEs, while good, are not on par with other languages yet.<p>Basically it&#x27;s a lot of work. And I commend the individuals who&#x27;ve paved the way for me with the std library in Rust, but we still have so much more work to do until there is a full OS env like GNU.