The Chrome browser on Android, Linux and ChromeOS now does all its web font processing using a Rust-based library (Skrifa) instead of its old C++ library (FreeType).
This is part of a general trend. If you look at open jobs by programming language required, Rust is now #7 (up from #10 last time I looked). C++ and C# are declining drastically, Python, SQL, Java, and JavaScript/TypeScript are the top 5 and all growing rapidly. (Golang is #6, and also growing similarly to Rust.)
It has been quite some time since I have been so excited about finding a blog post:
https://thinkingeek.com/gcc-tiny/
Read up about creating a language with a GCC backend!
FFI bindings to the rust wgpu project to java etc. might be super useful.
Thinking about trying to do just that.
When I started using rust, I wasn't using clippy, because I heard it was super pedantic.
Today, I think clippy is the greatest gift, you can give to a new rustacean.
It helps you so much in discovering code from the standardlibrary!
Thomas Phinney
Pudi 🍮