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Re:Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing la... by zozbot234 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:44AM (#34790938)
It's actually notable because it's a visible side-effect of the fact that Rust is attracting lots of young n00b coders from the Python, Ruby and JS/TS ecosystems, not just C/C++ greybeards. It's successfully spanning the divide between systems-level and higher-level languages.
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Re:Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing la... by ghostpepper on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:15AM (#34791525)
What are JS/TS programmers using rust for?
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Re:Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing la... by SauciestGNU on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:40AM (#34791922)
I've used it with Tokio to build out backend infra.
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Re:Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing la... by nequo on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:33AM (#34791823)
Just a guess but WASM?[1]

[1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/3665128/rust-is-most-popul...

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Re:Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing la... by AlexAndScripts on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:21PM (#34793614)
Performance and trend chasing.

I love Rust, but a lot of the web dev people using it are trend chasing, as the JS ecosystem and community always does...

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Re:Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing la... by B8MGHCBekDuRi on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @03:56AM (#34801544)
escaping JS nightmare hoping to be hired by the startup that's rewriting something already established in Rust and declare defeat two years later.
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