Thanks, you comment definitely makes me want to try Rust.
Could you tell me, can I use Rust as general purpose application language? Something like: create small executable app (win,unix,mac) that read some files, and do something with it, create GUI app that connects to DB and do something with it, etc?
Rust’s GUI frameworks are all (afaik) still pretty early and a little clunky to use.
…and compiling for Windows is a little clunky.
From a purely yes/no perspective, you can absolutely use Rust for building desktop GUI apps… But I’d recommend using a different language unless your app has really tight performance requirements.
If you want to make a cross platform app with good GUI support, I’d a actually recommend checking out Godot. It’s technically a game engine, but the built in scripting language (gdscript) and GUI components are really great. If gdscript is too slow for your purposes you can swap in a lot of other languages (including Rust) though C# is the best supported of these.
Thanks, you comment definitely makes me want to try Rust.
Could you tell me, can I use Rust as general purpose application language? Something like: create small executable app (win,unix,mac) that read some files, and do something with it, create GUI app that connects to DB and do something with it, etc?
Yesbut…
Rust’s GUI frameworks are all (afaik) still pretty early and a little clunky to use.
…and compiling for Windows is a little clunky.
From a purely yes/no perspective, you can absolutely use Rust for building desktop GUI apps… But I’d recommend using a different language unless your app has really tight performance requirements.
If you want to make a cross platform app with good GUI support, I’d a actually recommend checking out Godot. It’s technically a game engine, but the built in scripting language (gdscript) and GUI components are really great. If gdscript is too slow for your purposes you can swap in a lot of other languages (including Rust) though C# is the best supported of these.
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