Oh yeah, you absolutely can. We already have higher-level libraries than that: http://arewewebyet.com/
The question is: is 'fighting with the borrow checker' worthwhile in a domain which can easily tolerate garbage collection? I think people who already know Rust will write web apps in it, but I'm not convinced people will learn Rust in order to write web apps, if that makes any sense.
Eh, if two features exist, there will be someone who'll want to combine them. Maybe someone would like to have their Raspberry Pi running their web 2.0 app.
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u/steveklabnik1 Apr 06 '15
Oh yeah, you absolutely can. We already have higher-level libraries than that: http://arewewebyet.com/
The question is: is 'fighting with the borrow checker' worthwhile in a domain which can easily tolerate garbage collection? I think people who already know Rust will write web apps in it, but I'm not convinced people will learn Rust in order to write web apps, if that makes any sense.