Re:Why not C++?
by x0x0 on Saturday March 05, 2016 @03:38PM
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I asked about this and some Rust folks were kind enough to mention that Dropbox is one company that publicly has a large Rust deployment. Further, I think the main (huge?) advantage of Rust is it was designed to allow in situ replacements of pieces of a large c++ codebase. This really is a killer feature for lots of folks who simply can't afford to rewrite tens of millions of lines of tested c++.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10890310