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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by Flow on Monday September 06, 2021 @03:42PM (#28437205)
IMHO: Rust is going to be very very popular on everything from embedded to client-side web apps.

Headlines like the one on this submission makes me think "finally, someone has started to write that thing in a sensible language".

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by verdagon on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:07PM (#28437488)
I very much hope Rust becomes popular in the embedded space... but other languages are better for apps IMO.

I'd rather use a click listener with TS/Kotlin/Swift than be forced into idiomatic Rust's architectural workarounds.

This project made the right call, using TS for the client.

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by pdimitar on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:14PM (#28437559)
To be fair, as a Rust fan I think Kotlin and Swift definitely do better in app development still. They have a lot of good language features and their communities are stellar.

I don't insist on everything being Rust. But it gets very close in many areas IMO.

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