Re:macOS Apps in Rust
by Ygg2 on Monday May 15, 2023 @07:25PM
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> Pathfinder isn't widely used
Ofc. Servo was shut down before anything could happen with it. Making production-ready GPU font rendering is hard.
It's not spinning wheels anymore than OSS life cycle is spinning wheels (author makes a useful lib -> it becomes popular -> amount of work increases -> due to pressure/changes in life author abandons lib -> another author has a problem -> autor makes a lib -> ...)
> I was responding to this: "I'd like to add - people have been doing large scale parallel software development for years in C++, in spite of C++.
Saying Rust has issues doesn't negate C++ having massive issues but also a bigger mindshare.
Ofc. Servo was shut down before anything could happen with it. Making production-ready GPU font rendering is hard.
It's not spinning wheels anymore than OSS life cycle is spinning wheels (author makes a useful lib -> it becomes popular -> amount of work increases -> due to pressure/changes in life author abandons lib -> another author has a problem -> autor makes a lib -> ...)
> I was responding to this: "I'd like to add - people have been doing large scale parallel software development for years in C++, in spite of C++.
Saying Rust has issues doesn't negate C++ having massive issues but also a bigger mindshare.