IMO Rust is very applicable as a general purpose language, perhaps moreso than C++.
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Brendan Zabarauskas <[email protected]> wrote: > My understanding is that Rust is meant more for real-time, > performance/security critical applications, such as user-facing guis and > rendering engines. This also fits nicely with games and graphics > applications. There is also the real possibility of it being useful in > embedded systems. Go is designed more for large, server-side applications. > The core devs have said many times that they don't consider Go to be a > competitor. > > ~Brendan > > On 01/09/2013, at 6:48 PM, John Mija <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi! I've seen that Mozilla has used Go to build Heka >> (https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka). And although Go was meant to >> build servers while Rust was meant to build concurrent applications, Rust is >> better engineered that Go (much safer, more modular, optional GC). >> >> Then, when is better intended use case of Rust respect to Go? >> I expect Rust to be the next language for desktop applications if it gains >> as much maturity as Go but I'm unsure respect to the server side. >> _______________________________________________ >> Rust-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
