Comment by umanwizard
6 days ago
There are a lot of useful programs written in Rust nowadays. This comment might have made more sense like 5 years ago.
6 days ago
There are a lot of useful programs written in Rust nowadays. This comment might have made more sense like 5 years ago.
I mean Photoshop, Excel, Figma, etc -- programs I can show someone and say "Look, here's a cool thing you couldn't do with a computer before, but now you can!" Nothing I've seen in rust cuts meets that bar for me.
materialize.com (disclosure: I worked there for five years) is entirely written in Rust and as far as I know the first system to support incremental view maintenance over the full range of SQL semantics (including e.g. fully precise non-windowed joins, recursive queries, etc.) with a SQL interface (Postgres dialect).