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How hasn’t Google taken over and hired the Rust team? Weren’t they practically funding them by funding their parent, Mozilla?
by jimbob45 6y ago
How hasn’t Google taken over and hired the Rust team? Weren’t they practically funding them by funding their parent, Mozilla?
- steveklabnik 6y agoWell, most of the Rust team was not employed by Mozilla, so that’s one reason why they have not.
- nanagojo 6y agoWhat about the Servo team? Wouldn't they have an impact on Rust development?
- steveklabnik 6y agoThey certainly contributed, yes, but there are like two hundred people total on all of the Rust teams. Losing them hurts, they’re fantastic folks, but Rust is just way bigger these days.
- jimbob45 6y agoIt’s just that the team is right there for the taking and it’s so easy to hold control over the most exciting language of the next five years as Google instead of MS EEE’ing Rust soon.
- FartyMcFarter 6y agoDoes Google care about Rust?
- pjmlp 6y agoThey use it on ChromeOS, Fuchsia, are thinking of introducing it on Android, and driving the conversations of using Linux kernel modules written in Rust.
- FartyMcFarter 6y agoThanks, that is more involvement than I expected / knew about!
- steveklabnik 6y agoThere's also experiments going on in Chrome, but nothing is for sure yet.