Is Rust for OS level programming?

I can't think of a use for such a low level language other than OS programming, low level library writing and maybe game programming (just because they has to be fast).

For normal programming there's hardly anything OTHER than ancient primitive languages which can have buffer overrun problems, executing the stack problems etc.

For the most part I'm not interested in a language without a full gc. I'd rather deal with gc problems by having a good incremental, parallel gc, or even some attempt at a real-time-ish one. Or even an advanced one that can handle huge data sets by collecting long lived data in independent blocks in parallel with minor gc. Ie garbage collection is so hard that it's rarely done well, but that doesn't mean that it should be thrown out.

I'm not interested in a language without a full gc

that's cute :3

I'm concerned that Rust is starting out at the cruft level it took C++ 20 years to achieve. I shudder to think of what things will be like once the Boost crowd discovers Rust.

http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2tx7vj/psa_thestingers_rust_packages_for_arch_linux_are/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7687351

Rust I/O is utter garbage.

http://kjpgit.github.io/posts/testing-rust-io.html

They rushed the 1.0 release, made things easier (and shittier) so C++ "programmers" code grasp it and ignored any outside criticism from people that actually knew their shit. It's basically Mozilla being Mozilla again.

>>5

Gayzilla

If they weren't being funded by Jews at Yahoo and Google, all of their SJW political correctness would have caused the company to implode in on itself.

GC is shit.

Wait, rust doesn't have function overloading?

rust is utter shit, I thought /prog/ was above this kind of force hype garbage

>>9
It's still somewhat better than C and Sepples.

7.1 The Assignment Statement

No, thank you.

>>10
lol, this kid calling something older than himself (C++) a name and thinking his hipster-kid shit (rust) is better than C.

>>12
Lol, this grandpa wearing diapers thinks that all new things are worse than old things.
Or that it's hard to be better than Sepples.

>>13
Different poster here, just joining the thread.

I would just like to point out that if you use Rust, you've probably sucked some dick at some point in your life.

>>14
But I don't use Rust. Though it's still superior to Sepples. Because being superior to Sepples is one of the easiest things for a programming language. Even Haskell is superior to Sepples.

>>9
/prog/ is below everything

>>16
Its head is above all heavens, its feet below all hells!

>>17
and its anus rests upon the earth so that we may hax it

>>15
How is a language created by a homosexual SJW superior to anything, exactly?

>>19
By definition.

Oh snap, look at the dubs.

Only idiots care about dubs.
check'em

>>19
You mean Bjarne Stroustroup?