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Rust actually seems to have significant backing from both Mozilla and Microsoft (in varying forms, but it's there).

I mean, if you asked me today to spit out a backend + web frontend + native app, I'd actually have no qualms about committing to Rust as an option. It's nowhere near perfect, but not as far off as people think either.

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I think Rust is a great language, but until I see a successful app ecosystem start there's no way I'd consider it for a mobile app.

I think Kenny Kerr's Rust/WinRT project is going to be great on Windows (and Kerr already proved he can accomplish this kind of project with C++/WinRT), but Rust's language model is so fundamentally different from iOS and Android's that I can't imagine it being feasible any time soon.

I think it will eat into the C++ market share on mobile, which is a common strategy for larger apps that need to share business logic with native UI.

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