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Steve Klabnik - Rust, Oxide Computers

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What Kind of Applications Is Rust Really Well Suited For?

Rust has had this pervasive attitude of like bending the curve. If you're used to just using languages that use garbage collection and you're not used to thinking memory management as a concept, it's gonna be hard for people to learn Rust at first. And so one of the things that makes Rust kind of like weird and interesting and hard is if you have worked in functional languages and scripting languages and systems languages, Rust isn't gonna be that weird to you. So what are you gonna do? You're gonna build a program that you know how to build already a website with your new language you're trying to learn, Rust. That's obviously much more feasible now than it was eight years ago

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