• TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    I have several web services built in Rust, along with CLI tools, and a desktop GUI app. I’ve also player with a little bit of Rust in an embedded context and started on a phone app. Not many languages can boast a similar development experience across such diverse use cases, so universal doesn’t seem like much hyperbole.

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      Can you name any reasonably popular language that hasn’t been used for all those things? And if Rust is the new C, would anyone say C is universal? I’ve written tons of C. I can say C isn’t universal. Specifically, there is no universal language so far. Serious programmers have to know lots of them.