---
type: blog-post
title: "Rust: Are we general purpose yet?"
description:
draft: true
date: 2025-06-02
updates:
  - time: 2025-06-02
    description: first iteration
tags:
  - "#blog"
  - "#rust"
---

Rust has been steadily improving over the past few years, we've gotten more
complete support for async, still not fully there yet, but we're getting there.
Const generics, closures and more have also seen improvements. But all these
language features, doesn't really tell us about Rusts place in the industry, so
in this post I'll try my best to explain if I think Rust is ready for the
mainstream.

First of all lets (try) define out what general purpose means.

> In computer software, a general-purpose programming language (GPL) is a
> programming language for building software in a wide variety of application
> domains. Conversely, a domain-specific programming language (DSL) is used
> within a specific area.

[wikipedia: general purpose programming language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_programming_language)

In laymans terms, a language that can be written to target varied use-cases,
whether they be: application development, web services, systems programming,
etc.

My own definition also includes choice, weirdly enough. This means do people
consider _it_ a mainstream language. When they pick up a new project, do they
actively weigh Rust as a contender. And do people choose rust for these cases.

With these definitions we're not gonna end up with a yes/no situation, there is
definitely a gray zone, a large one at that.

I'll be doing a fairly biased