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What do you code in Rust? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 hours ago by ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/rust@lemmy.ml

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I've only been coding with Python/Javascript since I started my career. I do APIs and websites frontend. I don't really understand what is interesting in learning an other language. For example, I could learn Ruby, but I'd do the same thing I already do.

Rust, C/C++ tho seem to me to be languages to code other things. Hence my question : what do you code? If possible, make distinction between personal projects and professional projects.

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[–] algernon@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Anything and everything, really.

I wrote an idle inhibitor in Rust, a GUI WiFi connection manager for my wife, an API client for WriteFreely, I contributed to a Wayland compositor (niri), wrote a library & CLI tools to talk to Kaleidoscope-powered keyboards. I wrote the frontend of my personal search engine in Rust too.

But I also built a Tauri application where the backend and the frontend were written in Rust too. No HTML or JavaScript in sight, not in the sources at least.

Professionally, the answer's the same: if I am allowed to write it in Rust, I will write it in Rust, whether it is a low-level library that talks with hardware, a GUI application, or some web related thingy, or anything inbetween.

[–] ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

Oh! That's nice. I have a question. Why Rust above all the other languages for web-related stuff?

Again, I do not have any opinion on this, all I know is Python so 💀

I have a project idea so you may convince me to try to code it in Rust 😅