Having a garbage collector is no showstopper for writing an email server though.
Re:Dovecot audit complete
by nickpsecurity on Monday January 16, 2017 @12:31PM
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That claim gets even stronger if one considers real-time GC's or ref counting. Like how they do with Java for embedded systems. The places where Rust is uniquely advantageous gets smaller.
All those languages are garbage collected or use automatic reference counting. Rust is unique in using its type system to automatically allocate and free memory. For the use cases where the overhead of GC is too high - Wich are the same use cases that generally call for C or C++ these days - Rust has no competition. I think this explains why Rust is still in the explore phase.