"Surpassing" Go & the near-future of Rust: in what domains will Rust succeed?

• AreWeRustYet

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  Awesome list of "Are We *thing* Yet" for Rust

This is fascinating to me. It's my understanding that Rust is generally a system programming language, whereas Go is general-purpose... and what's more, it's up against the likes of C. But in spite of this, Rust is very clearly establishing a presence in most mainstream domains.

• alevin-fry

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  🐟 🔬🦀 alevin-fry is an efficient and flexible tool for processing single-cell sequencing data, currently focused on single-cell transcriptomics and feature barcoding.

  

I think it depends on where in the space one is working. Our most recent tool, for example, is alevin-fry, which is for efficient preprocessing of single cell RNA seq data. Rust is the natural replacement for tools in the space that otherwise would have been in C++ (aligners, assemblers, large scale indexing, and things like RNA seq quantification and preprocessing). I view julia as more appropriate to replace tools currently existing in Python or R. There, I believe it can offer some substantial benefits. For our applications however, garbage collection is usually a non-starter.

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