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Stupid question, but how can a web developer relate to Rust? I had to look up 'systems programming' and Wikipedia basically told me it is writing software for certain hardware components.

Will I ever be writing a web application in Rust?

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My background is primarily web development, however I've been writing a text editor in rust for a few months now. Prior to that, I had never written any software outside of the web.

Honestly, its not such a big change once you get into it. I'd encourage you to just give it a go, build something just for fun with it. Be it a command line tool, game, whatever. My experience has shown me that just because you've only been involved in web development, by no means limits you from systems/low level development!

To me it's more like s/he asked if they could build web apps with it, not about their chance to like it considering they come from web apps.

Here's a handy guide: http://arewewebyet.com/

Even assuming all those things are complete, it's not necessarily the best fit for your typical consumer web application. Not unlike how you wouldn't generally turn to C++ for one.

I'd suggest Nim (http://nim-lang.org) as a possible alternative for this use case.

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