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> I've met plenty of embedded devs

Because when I said "for the vast majority of use-cases", I expected people to understand that I agree that some use-cases can't run e.g. a garbage collector.




And I did understand you. Point was that "fast enough" is definitely not good enough for a lot of other use cases, nothing else. If anything, that's kind of reinforcing your point. :)


Right. Yeah then we agree :-). As I said, I do like Rust, and I think it makes sense in many cases.

I just feel like I read a lot of "Rust is the only worthwhile language our there", and actually there are many languages that are a better fit in their use-case.


> I just feel like I read a lot of "Rust is the only worthwhile language our there"

Pay no attention to zealots. Every community has them. I love Rust beyond what's rational and I still am sensible enough to reject it for projects where it would only prolong development time for not much gain (the projects in question do not need the super-duper speed or to use much less memory than you would get with my favorite Elixir, for example). And for a lot of script-ish / one-off / I-want-to-finish-it-quickly projects I just opt for Golang.

IMO projects like rewriting the UNIX userland utilities in Rust makes perfect sense; the originals are super old and nobody wants to seriously find security bugs in them and since they are written in C you can bet your neck they absolutely do have buffer over-/under-flow bugs that can likely lead to escalation of privileges. Is anybody fuzzing those tools 24/7 for years? They are the buildings blocks of at least 90% of all servers out there!

Rust makes sense in embedded as well, in financial trading, or in any system that has to squeeze every last drop of its hardware in general.

But web applications / API endpoints / API gateways and such? Meh, a compiled language in a VM like Elixir is plenty enough and always will be.

"Right tool for the job" should be the first catechism of the future Tech Priests and their cult to the Omnissiah (insert "Warhammer 40,0000" reference here ㋡).


Totally!




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