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Not related to this article, but I was looking through the Rust survey mentioned at the bottom of the article and was surprised at the amount of people using it for web development.

I'm not very knowledgeable about Rust but I guess I assumed it would not be the best technology to use in that space. Is Rust really that prevalent in web development?




That's mainly my goal as i learn Rust. It's been a difficult learning process[1], but i persist because the code i write feels simply more correct. I also think as time goes on frameworks will improve the ease of use, much of the ecosystem is very young.

Even better (or more crazy, heh), i plan on using Rust for clientside as soon as we have a feasible Rust -> DOM api bridge.

[1]: My learning process was mainly involved in the type system, when writing my own libraries. Not so much to do with basic web development.


I think part of it is just because there are a lot of people doing web development.

Also, of that group of people, many of us like to try out new things even if they aren't the best match...


crates.io, for example, has Rust on the backend. There's a HN poster who uses Rust server-side for his business, IRC.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10312354 is a comment I made a while back about it. I've gone from "why would you do that" to "this can make sense, depending" over the years.




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