You may live in a bubble. Rust is great and all but C++ is still dominant in its space. The web browser you're using right now? C++. The OS you're using? Probably some unholy mixture of C and C++. Console and computer games? Written in C++ as a rule.

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its-kostya 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44768882

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andrepd 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The commenter talked about new projects, why are you talking about the web browser and the OS?

	▲	Thaxll 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		New games are not made in Rust. Rust has been trying hard and it's going nowhere.
	▲	Wintamute 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Working on a major new project right now in C++. In our case, it’s a high performance 2D GPU accelerated drawing application - C++ and many of its battle hardened/established libs are the only game in town. Rust is a non-starter for a large range of apps