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I'm more interested in an alternative to write desktop apps in, rather than small one off scripts.

I'm interested in this from a vision point of view. What are going to be your first "written-using-Rust" apps ? Firefox is gargantuan, so it cant be your first. Ergo, the question about platform toolkit compatibility. If you build that one first, you will start spawning an ecosystem almost instantly... if you want.

Mono, Vala, etc. have nice apps that people love. I am wondering on how can you bridge the gap between javascript/Qtscript and Rust to make it easier to build apps in.




>What are going to be your first "written-using-Rust" apps ?

Rust compiler is written in rust, so that would be the first "written-using-Rust" app. Additionally afaik the work on rust-based web-browser (engine) has began, so that would be second (major) project for rust.


I have been working on a web framework stack: http://github.com/erickt/mre


The elasticsearch thing makes it so niche and impractical though :\




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