pgxr

Since a lot of languages have FFIs for C this made me wonder, did anyone try to write a PostgreSQL extension in... Rust? Turns out a few people have been working on doing just that. * JSONDC, a PostgreSQL extension written in Rust. Latest commit about a month ago. 161 commits in total. Authors say “It is written in Rust and, being short, is a good skeleton project for other would be plugin authors who'd like to use Rust to write Postgres extensions”. https://github.com/instructure/jsoncdc * pgxr. Latest commit 20 days ago. 23 commits in total. “Write PostgreSQL extension functions (as stored procedures) using Rust.”. https://github.com/clia/pgxr * RPGFFI. Latest commit about a year ago. 33 commits in total. “Imagine being able to create postgresql extensions in rust. We generate bindgen (0.29.1) pg apis for [...]”. https://github.com/posi

I see all of the gaps you mention as things that are being worked on activily. For some of the things you mention there are already decent Rust libraries: Hibernate => Deisel; Unity/Unreal => there are a bunch of things being worked on eg Piston and others (not yet fully featured of course); code generation => macros_rules! and proc macros, and custom derives can be extended to support this; javafx => yew?. I’m not saying there are things available for all of these areas, nor am I saying that I think necessarily others should choose to rely on the language in some of these areas, unless you want to directly contribute to filling in those gaps (there are many people who are doing this). What I am saying, is that based on my experience with the language, especially in the context of Web Development, I would pick it for frontend and backend