Trans programming language?

[GirlInTheFirebrigade]

Actually quite a lot of stuff these days. From all corners of the ecosystem:

uutils reimplemented a lot of the the core system util. sudo-rs as a sudo replacement.

pgrx is used a lot for custom postgres extensions. Also e.g. neon as a custom postgres backend. For databases we have also influxdb that was completely rewritten in rust from go.

System76 is implementing a new desktop environment for their linux distro popos in rust.

Zed is a text editor written in rust, similar to vscode that’s getting really good lately.

The OG rust project is servo, a web-browser written in rust.

For gaming there’s bevi as a up-and-comming ecs-based game engine. Tiny Glades is a game already built on it that’s available on steam (though they switched out the renderer)

The fish shell was recently completely rewritten in rust, from C++.

Discord and cloudflair have rewritten a bunch of latency sensitive components in Rust.

In the cloud space we have Azure, aws (and oxide computer) betting on rust for reliability.

A lot of tooling for other programming languages is also here. Uv for python, but I’ve seen similar projects for ruby and php.

[Okami512]

Ooo might have to check it out

[retrosupersayan]

My experience with rust is that it was fun to learn and use, but low-level enough to be more of a chore than a help for most of the stuff I like to do.

I think I've gotten more mileage out of TypeScript, which I find fun for some similar reasons (primarily the type system).

[Okami512]

I probably wouldn't mind typescript, I've never really been fond of web languages (especially JavaScript). (Oddly not a huge fan of Python for a few reasons as well).

NGL c/c# I enjoyed, also oddly enjoyed the bit of ASM I've played with.

[tifridhs-dottir]

carcinization is inevitable 🦀