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0 pointskonart7mo ago0 comments

>People do systems programming in rust, but that's not really what most of the community is doing.

As someone who haven't done any systems programming after university: wait, what?

I was under impression that this is exactly what people where doing with Rust.(system apps, even linux kernel, no?)

If not - what do they (most if the community) are doing with Rust?

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Web servers, games, and applications, that sort of thing.

Some people definitely do systems programming in, but it's a minority. The std library is not set up for it at all, you need something like rustix, but even that results in very unidiomatic ("unsafe") rust code.

In Zig it's all in the std library by default. Because it's a systems programming language, first and foremost.

porridgeraisin7mo ago

Actually I was also under OPs impression... can you tell me few specific problems with using rust for systems programming? BTW, I have only ever done something that resembles systems programming in C.

Ar-Curunir7mo ago

Rust is in the Linux kernel. Doesn’t get more systems than that…

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