Rust is a language which was created by Mozilla as an alternative to C++ for building the newest iteration of their browser, Firefox. A lot of the significant speed improvements are thanks to the memory safety assurances which were provided by Rust unlike C++ where there are many potential problems like data races.
A team member at MyBB is a big fan of it, but I never really get around to fully learning it, I'll have to dig in deeper. It's intriguing, but it also seems fairly complex, at-least compared to a comparatively simpler like Go, so it might be less productive, although I'll have to play with it.
Some people are also trying to push it into the realm of web development with deployments to the client-side with WebAssembly and web frameworks like Actix and Tokio.
A team member at MyBB is a big fan of it, but I never really get around to fully learning it, I'll have to dig in deeper. It's intriguing, but it also seems fairly complex, at-least compared to a comparatively simpler like Go, so it might be less productive, although I'll have to play with it.
Some people are also trying to push it into the realm of web development with deployments to the client-side with WebAssembly and web frameworks like Actix and Tokio.
