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As an outsider when I read about Rust it seems like it is positioning itself as the language to rewrite things that already work.

It's just the simplistic first feeling of a language, in the same way I feel like Go is the language for Kubernetes/cloud/net servers, Ruby is for Rails, JS is the browser/bootcamp language, Python is Data Science and AI...

Sure, you get that safety but you are also throwing the stability that an old (and maintained) codebase has just for the sake of being patched to handle the presssure from the real world.

Maybe it's time Rust positions itself as something more than "the language of rewrites".

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who is this that you are claiming is "positioning" itself??? the Rust maintainers? No. Programmers are choosing to write something in Rust and it just so happens they are interested in rewriting something that already exists because they can. You write as if Rust is an entity that chose to position itself. What is your argument here? Rust should just go do something else? You wouldn't dare say that about Python. Also, how dare you put these languages in a corner. I've use ruby for many things other than Rails. JS is much more than a browser language now, and python is much more than data science and AI. Go is much more than Kubernetes/cloud/net servers.