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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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