Why is Rust always advertised as system programming not general purpose programming?

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    Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

    Well, it used to be advertised like that, but nowadays the focus has shifted quite a bit. If you go to rust-lang.org, the slogan you will see is:

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  • cargo-script

    Cargo script subcommand

  • rust-script

    Run Rust files and expressions as scripts without any setup or compilation step.

    That may have been more of the originator of the idea, but what I believe I had used was rust-script, looking into it more. That one isn't maintained.

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