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Re:Comprehensive Rust: course used by the Android team at Go... by kazinator on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @01:03AM (#36054262)
> You can rewrite it in Rust once your system is large enough that eliminating the garbage collector will save you a few million dollars a year.

Never gonna happen.

Re:Comprehensive Rust: course used by the Android team at Go... by db48x on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @09:33AM (#36057802)
Why do you say that? We’ve all read articles from Cloudflare and Microsoft and others about rewriting services in Rust once it becomes obvious how much money they can save, so we know that it does happen. I’ve seen it happen at much smaller companies as well.