awesome-rust

Here's a list of applications written in rust: https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust#applications People are using rust as they do other general purpose programming languages that have somewhat of a focus on systems programming: to write code. Your question isn't really easy to answer in the same way that someone asking "what are people building with python?" isn't useful. The answer is everything from webpages to text editors to operating systems, and everything in between.

Because it's "reqwest", not "request". All these libraries are very well known within the community and are what I would come up with as a complete outsider (I don't think I've written more than a hundred lines of Rust code to this date). You can also find some pointers here: https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust https://lib.rs

I feel like Rust is the most obvious one. I've seen a slew of common Linux tools being rewritten in Rust recently (https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust#system-tools).

Too scarce. Obviously missing rustfmt, clippy, and many others. See Development Tools[1] section on Awesome Rust. I would add also a C to Rust conversion tool - c2rust[2]. I hope also Java to Rust converter[3] would become comparable too. [1] https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust#development-... [2] https://github.com/immunant/c2rust [3] https://github.com/aschoerk/converter-page

Unfortunately, I don't know enough to rewind history and do enough archaeology to find out whose "fault" it is. But as a possible example, typemap [1] which is a library featured on Awesome Rust [2] ("curated list of Rust code and resources"). Project uses cargo. Has a lock file with two deps. Last code commit was May 2017. And I can't get it to compile. [1] https://github.com/reem/rust-typemap [2] https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust