Also, it wasn't rewritten in Rust from some other language, it was written in Rust in the first place.
No, it's just a box dedicated to "seeding", a server whose purpose is bittorrent.
Seedboxes are mostly used on private torrent trackers, simply because the majority require users to maintain a high seed/leech ratio. In other words, users need to upload more than they download.
Or maybe not.
> inconsistent/incomplete
I'd be interested in hearing more about this, if you have the time. Rust is certainly incomplete, but I wonder if our perspectives line up here or not regarding how exactly it's not complete.
Specific pain points for me were: - the lack of traits for numeric primitives/types without pulling in the num crate - the difficulty working with floating point types - the inconsistent type annotations in fn signatures - the type annotations are a bit clunky no easy way to alias - and auto deref mechanics especially via match statement - having to fully specify a type in a match statement or use Self::Type - the use mechanism makes no sense - no optional/default arguments without macros leads to a lot of shimming/boilerplate - having to split operations because the borrow checker can't do partials or non lexical lifetimes - the clunky range syntax wich makes writing invertible/reversible functions really ugly and error prone due to lack of inclusive range and I really can't believe the committee decided to go ahead with ..= instead of ... It's really out of line compared to pretty much every other language is doing - doesn't seem like there's a good way to nicely format long lines
Overall I still really like the language but I really don't see it taking off until these issues are fixed because it makes it so hard to start up.