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What is Rust?

Francesco Ciulla on December 07, 2022

What is Rust? 🦀 Rust is a programming language (developed by Mozilla) that is designed to be: fast concurrent safe Rust helps write ...

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Artur Świerc • Dec 8 '22 • Edited

I'm wondering if Rust will be as popular as python/PHP/java, for now, if you'll say Rust everyone thinking about blockchain, am I right?
I'm a web dev and just thinking about learning rust for it (web-dev), but I didn't find many outer purposes to do that. I mean not sure if Rust will be a good choice in the future for web-dev, what do you think?

David Cantrell • Dec 14 '22

I don't think "blockchain" when people say "Rust". Indeed, if I did think that I'd also think "so don't bother learning Rust" :-) I've come across far more actual useful non-scammy stuff written in Rust though.

Artur Świerc • Dec 15 '22

David, could you give some examples of this kind of thing? I'm also curious about what more can be done in Rust

Chas • Dec 11 '22

I suggest you read up on actix actix.rs/ and actix-web actix.rs/docs/whatis/

Artur Świerc • Dec 11 '22

Thanks! I will!

Francesco Ciulla • Dec 10 '22

for now I am really loving it. I think a langauge ius alla bout its community, and for now I never heard someonesaying "Rust sucks". It's also the most loved programming language on Stack Overflow survey, and they are great signals