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Re:Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust by chillydawg on Thursday February 28, 2019 @11:59AM (#19272796)
Firefox?
Re:Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust by duxup on Thursday February 28, 2019 @12:04PM (#19272855)
I'm not saying nobody is using it, just the volume of "hey this is so cool" gets to be a bit much and I want to see more "here it is solving problems in production for a real thing".
Re:Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust by kbenson on Thursday February 28, 2019 @01:31PM (#19273721)
The explorations and small little demos and projects in a language is almost always higher than the number of production uses, it's just that in popular languages nobody cares to read much about it (or at least share is so it spreads), because it's already known. Rust is still fairly uncommon, so you're bound to see a lot of people announcing their experiences while playing around with it, and that can skew the perceived ratio of things.

I think the problem is solved by paying less attention to the stuff you care about less, and/or seeking out more production(y) uses if desired by looking in places where it's already common, such as /r/rust, where the content ratio will naturally fall more favorably towards production uses, libraries and advanced discussions since a minimum level of experience (or at least interest) can be assumed.