name a single admittedly indispensable tech originally written in rust

*tries to come up with one*

I saw someone try to write a rgb keyboard library in Linux but it wasn't on AUR and a mess. I kind of wanna rewrite it in rust but have too much to do

this was the strangest thing: https://veloren.net/
this is such a mess of a game. like 300 devs have committed to this game. the codebase is a mess. and yet somehow it runs. it's a open source game. it's such a mess. I don't understand a thing. kind of cool though that you could do this? probably it only worked like this because rust

bevy is popular but I don't know if commercial games have been made off it yet. recommended not to do so yet until a major version is stabilized

I'd also bet the ML rust people are gonna have better performance than rust, but I haven't dived into that yet and it's probably not there yet

... oh and I guess there's solana

I tried searching, nothing. Maybe Rust itself (but I don't need Rust itself):

In the same vein. I don't want C++, I want what C++ can do for me.

@Demolishun you get it. What good is a language as cool as rust where nobody actually manages do build anything really meaningful

@kobenz to be fair it took a while for C devs to embrace C++. When they did they still wrote C in C++. Rust does not have a transition stage. You can't write other languages in Rust. I think Rust gaining some small impactful projects will help. I don't think you can force it unless you make government projects want contractors to only use memory safe tooling. So it will probably find its way into embedded and military applications to start.

@Demolishun ooo la la like the White House says use memory safe languages like rust

@Demolishun

> You can't write other languages in Rust.

Huh? Sure you can!

@Demolishun > maybe Rust itself

Nope, it seems the Rust compiler was originally written in OCaml

@cafecortado it was and it was GORGEOUS 🤤 nowadays... Not so much

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https://github.com/graydon/...

Rust initial release was less than ten years ago. Give it a fuckin chance.

@Lensflare so I can use C++ syntax is Rust?

@cafecortado aren't most things bootstrapped at some point?

I can write C code in C++. That was the point of the transition.

@Demolishun I thought you meant to say that it’s not possible write compilers or interpreters for other languages in Rust.

I was gonna say Veloren, though not indispensable, because it's such a cute little game.

But then I remembered the combat still sucks so fuck it a million times until they fix that shit.

@Demolishun you can LMAO 🤣 check this out: https://github.com/JunSuzukiJapan/...

@kobenz nice

1. indispensability is not a good thing, it's an unnecessary risk
2. Rust is younger than today's core infrastructure
3. Servo is standing to become the second open option in a market dominated by Google, which is a pretty important social role for software to occupy today.

@lorentz huh? what? Rust's about the same age as clojure, go, nim...