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Genuine question: what is Huawei's role in Rust Lang? It is in the founding member companies list.

akritrime 6y ago
Disregarding all allegations, Huawei is one of the bigger tech companies and is one that has its finger in every pie, especially across domains where rust is advertised as a better alternative to incumbent C/C++. I can see why they are on the board.
oytis 6y ago
Peixin Hou seems to be a director on Linux foundation too. Probably responsible for corporate lobbyism in OSS in general.
- Erlangen 6y ago
  Well, hw is the top contributor to linux kernel in 5.10. https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/ https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/. I remember it was discussed in HN before.
  - oytis 6y ago
    It's pretty reasonable for a hardware vendor building on top of Linux to upstream their changes.
hobofan 6y ago
"Huawei uses Rust to develop a real-time OS for IoT devices, and in the StratoVirt project, a high-performance virtualization platform. According to engineers at Huawei, the company organizes routine Rust training and evaluation activities to encourage its large number of C/C++ developers to write safer code." https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/01/rust-china-conf/ https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/01/rust-china-conf/ ----------- I think they've been a big user of Rust in China for some time now, though I'm not aware of any big technical contributions to the language (or the core ecosystem) by them. In a similar vein, I find it a bit surprising that Facebook (or whatever they rebranded Libra to) is not part of the foundation. I think they are the only company that was interviewed when Rust's usage/usability experience in big companies was evaluated, that is not part of the foundation.
- metreo 6y ago
  I think I saw something about reports that FB has hired a number of individuals to work full-time on the Rust lang, so there are probably lots of companies contributing to Rust in ways that don't get them features on the website.
  - hobofan 6y ago
    Yes I'm aware, which is exactly why I find it surprising that they aren't involved in the foundation even though the other tech giants that have made investments in Rust of similar size are.

Disregarding all allegations, Huawei is one of the bigger tech companies and is one that has its finger in every pie, especially across domains where rust is advertised as a better alternative to incumbent C/C++. I can see why they are on the board.

oytis 6y ago

Peixin Hou seems to be a director on Linux foundation too. Probably responsible for corporate lobbyism in OSS in general.

Erlangen 6y ago
Well, hw is the top contributor to linux kernel in 5.10. https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/ https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/. I remember it was discussed in HN before.
- oytis 6y ago
  It's pretty reasonable for a hardware vendor building on top of Linux to upstream their changes.

hobofan 6y ago

"Huawei uses Rust to develop a real-time OS for IoT devices, and in the StratoVirt project, a high-performance virtualization platform. According to engineers at Huawei, the company organizes routine Rust training and evaluation activities to encourage its large number of C/C++ developers to write safer code." https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/01/rust-china-conf/ https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/01/rust-china-conf/ ----------- I think they've been a big user of Rust in China for some time now, though I'm not aware of any big technical contributions to the language (or the core ecosystem) by them. In a similar vein, I find it a bit surprising that Facebook (or whatever they rebranded Libra to) is not part of the foundation. I think they are the only company that was interviewed when Rust's usage/usability experience in big companies was evaluated, that is not part of the foundation.

metreo 6y ago
I think I saw something about reports that FB has hired a number of individuals to work full-time on the Rust lang, so there are probably lots of companies contributing to Rust in ways that don't get them features on the website.
- hobofan 6y ago
  Yes I'm aware, which is exactly why I find it surprising that they aren't involved in the foundation even though the other tech giants that have made investments in Rust of similar size are.