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Rust & cross-platform mobile development
Recently I started to investigate options to share business logic between Android & iOS. This investigation leads me to Rust — very interesting and relatively new programing language so I decided to give it a try.
What is Rust?
Two most important point from the documentation:
Rust is blazingly fast and memory-efficient: with no runtime or garbage collector, it can power performance-critical services, run on embedded devices, and easily integrate with other languages.
It is a native-level language like C++.
Rust’s rich type system and ownership model guarantee memory-safety and thread-safety — enabling you to eliminate many classes of bugs at compile-time.
Its compiler will try to save you from common memory mistakes.
Is it popular?
Based on the 2019 survey, Rust is one of the most loved & wanted among engineers (why?):
General trends are not that great:
