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Why Is Rust Programming Language Becoming So Popular? (www.frolicorg.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

Thanks, you comment definitely makes me want to try Rust.

Could you tell me, can I use Rust as general purpose application language? Something like: create small executable app (win,unix,mac) that read some files, and do something with it, create GUI app that connects to DB and do something with it, etc?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yesbut...

    Rust's GUI frameworks are all (afaik) still pretty early and a little clunky to use.

    ...and compiling for Windows is a little clunky.

    From a purely yes/no perspective, you can absolutely use Rust for building desktop GUI apps... But I'd recommend using a different language unless your app has really tight performance requirements.

    If you want to make a cross platform app with good GUI support, I'd a actually recommend checking out Godot. It's technically a game engine, but the built in scripting language (gdscript) and GUI components are really great. If gdscript is too slow for your purposes you can swap in a lot of other languages (including Rust) though C# is the best supported of these.

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