Yeah, dont abandon the rust project. Push it in github, I can take a look at it and may contribute to it as well.I'm down. Is there a reef-pi Slack (or IRC!?) channel already? I think for now I'll try to get familiar with reef-pi and contribute there. I don't plan on totally abandoning my stuff, since it's the only real way I get to play with Rust and other concepts like it, but having one solid, open source frontrunner is something I think the community needs.
reef-pi frontend is all based on the 1.0 API, so if you want you can swap in/out different backends . you can just implement one sub system in rust and we can take that for a spin with reef-pi ui ...