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echelonyesterday at 2:35 PM3 repliesview on HN

A lot of infrastructure is going to be ported to Rust.

It's fantastic for websites and servers, and LLMs are very good at generating it.

The primary downside of Rust is the long compile times, especially with macros (serde, etc.) If that can be fixed, it will be sublime.


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tonyedgecombeyesterday at 2:46 PM

I like Rust a lot but I'm not sure it would come very high up my list for web applications.

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edukiteyesterday at 2:56 PM

First compile. Every another will be significantly faster since compiler is incremental