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		hot_gril on Sept 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurr... Anything that waits on I/O needs concurrency (but not necessarily threads). Web backends, web frontends, deeper backends, desktop GUIs, that's probably 90% of software right there.

sealeck on Sept 9, 2023 [–]

Rust is a systems programming language though.

hot_gril on Sept 9, 2023 | [–]

I interpreted the 99% thing as referring to all software. If it's just Rust projects then sure, then again anyone who needs async has probably been avoiding a language that lacked async until recently.

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