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I haven't heard anything about Google using Rust, other than for (essentially toy) usage in Fuchsia.

Xevi 6y ago
To a lesser extent so far, yes. As you mentioned there's the Fuchsia stuff, and some other smaller open source repositories. But there's also other areas, for example Android. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNkFSCRUk6E&feature=youtu.be&t=727 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNkFSCRUk6E&feature=youtu.be... Google is also listed as a sponsor here: https://www.rust-lang.org/sponsors https://www.rust-lang.org/sponsors They might not be as invested as other companies, but I bet they'll eventually ramp up their involvement.
steveklabnik 6y ago
ChromeOS uses Rust for its hypervisor stuff, this is actually where Firecracker (from Amazon) started.
roblabla 6y ago
Google has also been experimenting with using Rust within Chrome[0]. They're working on autocxx to make C++/Rust FFI much smoother[1]. [0] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safety/rust-and-c-interoperability https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet... [1] https://github.com/google/autocxx https://github.com/google/autocxx
pella 6y ago
the open list : * Google github repo ( 30 results for repositories written in Rust ) * https://github.com/google?q=&type=&language=rust https://github.com/google?q=&type=&language=rust
zaxcellent 6y ago
ChromeOS uses Rust for crosvm, which Amazon's firecracker was derived from.
staticassertion 6y ago
There's a lot of inertia at Google with regards to Rust. Things are happening slowly there, but they're happening. I'm sure it'll be more public soon, but they didn't miss out on the Rust-grab after Mozilla let the project go, even if they haven't been as public about it. The fact that both Microsoft and Amazon, Google's major competitors, are investing in Rust means that Google would be quite foolish to not be looking as well.

Xevi 6y ago

To a lesser extent so far, yes. As you mentioned there's the Fuchsia stuff, and some other smaller open source repositories. But there's also other areas, for example Android. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNkFSCRUk6E&feature=youtu.be&t=727 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNkFSCRUk6E&feature=youtu.be... Google is also listed as a sponsor here: https://www.rust-lang.org/sponsors https://www.rust-lang.org/sponsors They might not be as invested as other companies, but I bet they'll eventually ramp up their involvement.

steveklabnik 6y ago

ChromeOS uses Rust for its hypervisor stuff, this is actually where Firecracker (from Amazon) started.

roblabla 6y ago

Google has also been experimenting with using Rust within Chrome[0]. They're working on autocxx to make C++/Rust FFI much smoother[1]. [0] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safety/rust-and-c-interoperability https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet... [1] https://github.com/google/autocxx https://github.com/google/autocxx

pella 6y ago

the open list : * Google github repo ( 30 results for repositories written in Rust ) * https://github.com/google?q=&type=&language=rust https://github.com/google?q=&type=&language=rust

zaxcellent 6y ago

ChromeOS uses Rust for crosvm, which Amazon's firecracker was derived from.

staticassertion 6y ago

There's a lot of inertia at Google with regards to Rust. Things are happening slowly there, but they're happening. I'm sure it'll be more public soon, but they didn't miss out on the Rust-grab after Mozilla let the project go, even if they haven't been as public about it. The fact that both Microsoft and Amazon, Google's major competitors, are investing in Rust means that Google would be quite foolish to not be looking as well.