Comment by amelius

In this case Rust makes sense. However for the majority of UI projects it doesn't make sense. For UI you want to iterate quickly because requirements change often, and you want garbage collection to be able to move fast. At the same time, performance does not matter (low level stuff like bit blitting can be done by lower level libraries perhaps written in Rust or even at the hardware level). A language designed for systems programming makes zero sense there. Unfortunately, we see a lot of "This UI project now in Rust!" on HN, and people get annoyed by that, and I think rightfully so. People don't want to maintain code that was written in the wrong language, and that __will__ happen if other people pick a language for the wrong reasons.