The struggle with Rust

Re:The struggle with Rust by Recurecur on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:43AM (#13472919)

> I think Rust may be ideal for embedded software development, or low-level systems software, but for general application development, I think OCaml or perhaps Swift or Scala are more ideal, at least for me (or at least until I decide to try Rust again, perhaps it will stick this time).

If you're not aware of it, scala-native looks very interesting... It looks to be active project.

https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native

FWIW, I've also enjoyed Swift development quite a bit. I think Swift will go deep into the C++ sweet spot.

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Re:The struggle with Rust by pjmlp on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @02:13PM (#13474499)

A benefit that Swift has over Rust in regards to market adoption, is that an OS vendor has the power to say "My way or the highway" to developers that want to target their platform.

However Rust is already picking up steam in Firefox modules, hobby OS development, university CS degrees and GNOME modules, so there might be a path there.

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Re:The struggle with Rust by fjrieiekd on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @08:20AM (#13481162)

The tooling for Swift is certainly miles better on iOS, but I do like Rust as a language. On Android the most comprehensive solution I've seen is Xamarin, but last time I tried it (which was years ago), I wasn't a fan of the GUI and the perf was worse than Dalvik. Hopefully that has improved now.

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Re:The struggle with Rust by fjrieiekd on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @08:23AM (#13481175)

Rust seems really great as infrastructure level code, but the tooling still has a lot of rough dyes when it comes to mobile development.

I think Swift could play a decent role here if it ever gets good android support as it already enjoys first-class support on iOS. I also agree in that Swift feels very nice. :)

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