![]() ![]() On the user and startup front, web-based collaborative design tool Figma, recently acquired by Adobe, outlined its experiences, good and bad, with Rust development in this 2018 article. He recently said the industry should treat C and C++ languages as “deprecated.” That ZDNet article also alludes to the use of Rust at Meta, Google (Android and Chrome), the Linux Kernel and even possibly inside Windows itself. AWS offers a Rust SDK.īased on security and reliability concerns, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich is urging developers to avoid using C or C++ in new projects, advocating they use Rust instead. Do you use Dropbox? Surprise you are using Rust!Īmazon Web Services saw the advantages early as well, basing technologies like the virtualization technology Firecracker and Crater, the test tool, on Rust. Perhaps, specific examples like Dropbox’s successful departure from AWS to its own platform using a rich amount of Rust. What could have influenced these major cloud providers? Possibly the speed and efficiency of the language. It can be easily illustrated that major tech vendors (many user-facing) have taken up the Rust mantle. Infrastructure Developments (APIs and Cloud Services) Investments will likely pick up speed as mainstream familiarity and confidence with the language grows. Along with that, performance improvements in code execution and stability of the compiler are trending higher. ![]() Rust’s package repository Crates.io is growing at a respectable 87 crates per day, according to Modulecounts. Not the fastest, but not anemic either. So there is reasonable evidence of a substantial grassroots inclusion of the language by developers in large and small companies for production and development. We intersected those with the Rust Foundation’s list and added a few recently publicly announced. “Black Hat Rust” author Sylvain Kerkour presents more than 42 companies using it in his research. Suddenly, many existing apps can benefit from Rust with no or limited additional costs.Ĭan we identify 200 companies though? Well technically, I only got to 174. ![]() An estimate of 200, seems to be an underestimate when it’s understood that compute infrastructures, such as at Amazon Web Services (AWS), are being oxidized (that is rewritten in whole or part in Rust). This is changing as many vertical industries, small companies, universities and research facilities join in. The lion’s share are software companies, many providing APIs and services. The Rust Foundation has around 38 members and donors and lists 138 production users. ![]()
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