GormadtRust? Like what's on some metals?
limerRust is both a nice programming language, and an obnoxious social movement made of a small minority of Rust programmers who are very loud
dansmall minority of Rust programmers who are very loud
They also list “written in Rust” as the primary feature of software they write, even though the majority of users don’t care as long as it works properly.
Nat (she/they)It matters to potential contributors. It’s also a floating signifier for a lot of things.
The majority of users aren’t contributors though. It’s fine to mention it in contributor documentation but I find it weird to advertise it as an end-user feature given most apps written in other languages don’t do this.
It’s also a floating signifier for a lot of things.
Like what?
A program being written in rust itself doesn’t guarantee anything, but it tells you what you’ll probably find:
- Utf-8 support
- No shenanigans with installations, dynamic libraries and such. Just download and execute.
- Multi-platform support
- Low resource usage.
- semver.
- Compile with just 1 command if you want to.
- MIT/apache2 license.
- No memory leaks.
- If it crashes, at least it will probably log out something more helpful than “SEGFAULT”.
Many of those are highly positive to the end consumer.
Most of those points are true for programs written in Go too, and C# (if you use Native AoT).