Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity

Re:Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity by Thaxll on Monday October 30, 2017 @09:56AM (#15584995)

And yet not a single project written in Rust is out. The only project is Servo and nowhere close to production.

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Re:Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity by nickm12 on Monday October 30, 2017 @11:03AM (#15585452)

There's a good chance Rust code is on your machine. If you have a recent version of Firefox or Dropbox there's Rust inside.

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Re:Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity by randomThoughts9 on Monday October 30, 2017 @10:28AM (#15585201)

That's not entirely true. Only in the blockchain world there are two Rust projects I know of:

- the parity ethereum client: https://github.com/paritytech/parity

- the exonum framework: https://exonum.com/

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Re:Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity by steveklabnik on Monday October 30, 2017 @10:21AM (#15585162)

https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html

100 companies betting money on Rust.

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Re:Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity by empath75 on Monday October 30, 2017 @10:04AM (#15585056)

Redox is an entire operating system written in Rust.

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Re:Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity by pjmlp on Monday October 30, 2017 @03:22PM (#15588067)

Besides all the other projects mentioned, GNOME is slowly adopting Rust into their projects.

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Re:Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity by connicpu on Monday October 30, 2017 @02:36PM (#15587676)

If you have a recent version of Firefox installed, you have Rust code running in production on your computer. Along with the dozens of other companies who are now using Rust.

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Re:Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity by lgunsch on Monday October 30, 2017 @03:56PM (#15588351)

Microsoft Visual Studio Code ships with code search tool written in Rust.

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