Heard about Rust via the MaidSAFE people - can someone tell if my project is a good use case?

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People,

I heard about Rust via glowing reports from the MaidSAFE people. I will eventually move an app I am developing into the SAFE environment for data storage but it occurred to me that part of the future design for the app I am thinking of might be well handled by Rust itself.

My "Neural Archive Me!" Avatar Project is designed to eventually create a virtual person from information provided by the original biological person. Have a look at the diagram at the end of this doc:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yf6W-7EnUy3Zgduc_A119lru7RRz-nVtqiCNaQn3vX0/pub

It seems to me that Rust might be ideal for the Executive Function Supervisor (ExFuS) component - what do people think? Is Rust worth looking at more closely for this function?

Thanks,
Phil.

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If you compare Rust and Go, and name Go “not mature enough”, then Rust is even less mature than Go.

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@kstep,

OK, that is a useful perspective but the Q is: is Rust appropriate tech for what I am considering?

Thanks,

Phil.

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Would you normally have written it in C or C++ but want a more pleasant and modern language? Would you normally have written it in Python or Ruby, but need certain parts to be blindingly fast, where you'd write C with an FFI?

But from your task descriptor, you don't want a programming language choice, you want pub/sub on a queue...

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@arienmalec,

I think that is about right - is Rust not a good candidate for that task? From what I have heard so far it seems like it should be . .

Thanks,
Phil.