I use Rust for command line applications.

I find that CLI is a great way to model problems. When I find myself doing something that has graduated beyond a comfortable amount of PowerShell, Rust is there for me.

I have a template I've been evolving so it's super easy to get started with something new; I just copy the template and slam Copilot with some rough ideas on what I want and it works out.

https://github.com/teamdman/teamy-rust-cli

Just today used it to replace a GitHub stats readme svg generator thing that someone else made that was no longer working properly.

https://github.com/TeamDman/teamy-github-readme-stats

Decomposes the problem very nicely into incrementally achievable steps

1. `fetch <username>` to get info from github into a cache location 2. `generate <username> <output.svg>` to load stats and write an svg 3. `serve` to run a webserver to accept GET requests containing the username to do the above

Means that my stuff always has `--help` and `--version` behaviours too

> What are people writing in rust today?

Rewriting existing code for karma points and GitHub stars. Plus some minority actually trying to build something new.

I'm working on a multisig sign-off solution, with the first use case being file downloads like GitHub releases authentication: https://github.com/asfaload/asfaload

I'm coming from F# and find rust a good compromise: great type safety (though I prefer the F# language) with an even better ecosystem. It can also generate decently sized statically compiled executables, useful for CLI tools, and the library code I wrote should be available to mobile apps (to be developed).

I'm having fun using it to make websites. Rust→WASM works really well. Definitely a very enjoyable way to make web apps. I've been trying to think how I can contribute to the ecosystem, seeing as I enjoy it so much. Rust gives you a control over memory that is impossible to replicate in javascript, and which allows much more performant code

Whatever I used to use Node for, like web servers, I now use Rust. It's pretty nice, with a strong OCaml-like type system which I've used before (better than TypeScript even in some cases), plus it's much faster and more memory efficient such that I can run way more services on my 5 dollar Hetzner box with Dokploy compared to Node or Java or C#.