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Re:Using Zig to Provide Stack Traces on Kernel Panic for a B... by pjmlp on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @05:13AM (#18607007)
Not when writing GUI like code, to the point that the Rust team acknowledges that additional work needs to be done after NLL lands on stable.

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2018/11/01/afte...

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2018/11/10/afte...

So while Rust is much more productive than ATS or Cyclone, there is still room of improvement for that experience.

Re:Using Zig to Provide Stack Traces on Kernel Panic for a B... by floatboth on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @05:46AM (#18607166)
There's always room for improvement, but speaking of GUI, gtk-rs is pretty usable already.
Re:Using Zig to Provide Stack Traces on Kernel Panic for a B... by pjmlp on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @06:44AM (#18607417)
It is, if you don't mind sprinkling your code with Rc<RefCell<item>> everywhere, as means to access widget struct members in callbacks.