> I rather use visual design tooling (think Qt Designer,
Oof, I did professional Qt development and Qt designer was basically a joke. Not sure if it improved, but I've never experienced a visual design tool that saved me time. Not that they can't exist, just that the implementation is usually too buggy to justify itself. I don't enjoy debugging XML that gets compiled to C++ (I think it's compiled, anyway--maybe it's parsed at runtime... I forget). In whatever case, if you build a visual design tool for C++, you can build one for Rust as well.
> bigger fish to fry in distributed network calls than who is owning what
Agreed that I don't think distributed is the sweet spot for Rust, but there are certain niches (high performance, low level, etc) where Rust would be valuable. Previously I worked in automotive which is basically a bunch of distributed embedded computers talking to each other over a CAN network, and Rust would have saved a lot of time and money. On the other end of the spectrum, you have high frequency trading where performance is so important that C++'s myriad problems are worthwhile, so certainly Rust could add value here as well.
Oof, I did professional Qt development and Qt designer was basically a joke. Not sure if it improved, but I've never experienced a visual design tool that saved me time. Not that they can't exist, just that the implementation is usually too buggy to justify itself. I don't enjoy debugging XML that gets compiled to C++ (I think it's compiled, anyway--maybe it's parsed at runtime... I forget). In whatever case, if you build a visual design tool for C++, you can build one for Rust as well.
> bigger fish to fry in distributed network calls than who is owning what
Agreed that I don't think distributed is the sweet spot for Rust, but there are certain niches (high performance, low level, etc) where Rust would be valuable. Previously I worked in automotive which is basically a bunch of distributed embedded computers talking to each other over a CAN network, and Rust would have saved a lot of time and money. On the other end of the spectrum, you have high frequency trading where performance is so important that C++'s myriad problems are worthwhile, so certainly Rust could add value here as well.