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Curious, what makes you think Rust isn't be used for "real work"? So far there's a high performance browser (servo + servo components in FF), kernel (Redox), pa

Curious, what makes you think Rust isn't be used for "real work"? So far there's a high performance browser (servo + servo components in FF), kernel (Redox), parallelism library (Rayon), grep replacement (ripgrep), all written in Rust, that are somewhere near best-in-class (Redox is debatable but that's mostly due to the fact that the success of an OS requires many non-technical factors). All this in a language that's ~2 years old is pretty impressive.

civilitty 9y ago
Webrender, the next gen rendering/compositing engine for Servo, will become the default renderer for Firefox Nightly at the end of this year and several components like CSS and URL parsing have been in Firefox stable for a while now. That alone puts Rust in the multi-million end user club for some complicated software