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0 pointsIshKebab4mo ago0 comments

I strongly disagree with this. Obviously Rust hasn't had the decades of life that C/C++ has to give you weird niche libraries, but at this point the Rust crate ecosystem is huge and you have to go fairly niche before you find something where there simply isn't a Rust option. Usually you find something and it's a lot nicer than the C option.

GUI is kind of unique because it's a really hard problem - both a ton of work and also a bit awkward to make ergonomic in Rust.

> last updated 1-3 years ago

That's way too low a bar. I bet most of these niche C libraries that don't have Rust equivalents are similarly slow-moving.

GNU Make regularly goes 4 years without a release but it's still alive.

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the__alchemist4mo ago

This is surprising to hear; my experience matches the parent comments' exactly. The crates exist, but are usually toys that haven't been applied to practical problem. This is a generalization, but it applies well in many domains. Often, they're someone's one-off school project, a "let's build X in rust" from someone who doesn't have a practical use case for X etc.

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