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I think it's time we drop the "written in Rust" qualifier.

Although it's becoming tiresome I find myself more bothered by software that feels the need to incorporate the programming language into the app name.

I think Go best lent itself to this and for a while it was starting to grate on me that "Go" had to be jammed into every app's name.

Seems like the app and its purpose should be able to stand on merit alone.

Definitely agree, programming languages are tools. There's different tools for different jobs, but nobody says "Engine, proudly made with Wrench" or "Shed, proudly made with Hammer and Nails" because that would be ridiculous.

The one exception to this is libraries for that language.

Imagine the chaos at "C compiler written in Rust"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18693321 Show HN: Toy C Compiler written in Rust

(the repo is https://github.com/utam0k/r9cc and https://www.utam0k.jp/en/blog/2018/10/12/r9cc/ is a blog post from 2018 that describes it)

There's also https://github.com/jyn514/saltwater and https://github.com/ClementTsang/rustcc, but they are inactive. Saltyrust seem pretty complete though.

s/Saltyrust/Saltwater/

Not necessarily, only when memory safety, file size, complexity, and marginal performance over other options aren’t relevant, or are incidental to the main value proposition.

For this particular project, it might not be necessary, but for others it’s useful to know.

Almost as if the language is enough to define good software.

What are the merits of what was built?

i can make absolutely awful software in rust

But at least it will have good memory safety :)

Who is that an issue for? We make simple websites lol.

So you mean a piece of code that is literally hanging on the open net, bare-assed? Yeah, I wonder why memory safety would matter here ;)

Memory allocation and garbage collection is a very solved problem unless you are doing highly performant work.

We make websites and mobile apps. Get it?

Yes, there is definitely a trade–off between speed of development and speed of the resulting program. Rust isn’t right for everyone, especially when speed of development is the prime consideration. Even a mediocre server can handle many thousands of requests per second if the software is efficient, but there are plenty of worthwhile projects out there that don’t see that level of usage. For them, garbage –collected languages are perfect.

But what is it that I am fighting against here? Why is my tone a certain way? These people are literally trying to build websites in Rust. Acolytes, cultists.

What’s wrong with that? Rust is great for writing websites. People may choose to make different tradeoffs than you.

It's up to the user to secure their own memory

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