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I would say so far, yes. I would say it's pretty "mainstream" already with many companies using it in production, including Mozilla. As big as C++/C? Too early
by Cshelton 10y ago
I would say so far, yes. I would say it's pretty "mainstream" already with many companies using it in production, including Mozilla.
As big as C++/C? Too early to tell for that.
- hutzlibu 10y agoAlso anyone big besides mozilla, who created it?
- Cshelton 10y agohttps://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html
- daenney 10y agoThat's 60 companies. Granted there's bound to be a few more but calling it "pretty mainstream" based on that seems like a stretch to me. Though not a flawless datapoint I'd rather use something like the TIOBE[1] index, which puts Rust at 0,37% rating, or position 41, right below Erlang. I hope that'll change, I think Rust has some interesting concepts and could be a notable step forward for some things that we've always done in C. But I can't find a datapoint that would make out Rust as being mainstream today. [1]: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
- whyever 10y agoRust fares better in other indices.
- burntsushi 10y agoMicrosoft in VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_11#_text-search-improvements https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_11#_text-search-imp... /plug :-)
- flukus 10y agoI don't think that counts. I'm not using c when I run grep.
- burntsushi 10y agoThey are shipping ripgrep with VS code.
- flukus 10y agoBut shipping a program using rust != using rust. If that was the case I've used Erlang despite never having written a single line of it because I've shipped rabbitmq.
- burntsushi 10y agoThis is a strange argument I find myself in. What do you expect me to say? They're shipping a Rust application I wrote. That's a fact. Do with it what you will.
- lossolo 10y agoNo, it's not strange. What you wrote can be interpreted as manipulation. It's the same as replying to question "Who uses Go besides Google?" And you would reply that almost everyone use it, because everyone is shipping their apps with Docker. You see manipulation here? I don't know if intentionally or not but you did exactly the same.
- dbaupp 10y agoFWIW, a common argument in favour of C and C++ is how it is used by pretty much everything that one runs on a computer, in exactly the same sense of "use". I think you're tilting at windmills: some people mean "use" to mean "ship" and others "write", and neither are that unreasonable.
- mmstick 10y agoGoogle and Microsoft are using it.
- lossolo 10y agoYou have any sources to support that claim? Where do they use it? In their infrastructure?
- tmccrmck 10y agoUnless you count ripgrep being shipped with VS Code as a data point of Microsoft using Rust, I can almost certainly say that the above poster is wrong. Source: We had an email thread about using Rust on the MS Rust mailing list about a month ago.
- mmstick 10y agoJust check out Google's GitHub repository.