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I find it puzzling that aws uses rust so much yet don't have an official rust aws sdk

treis 6y ago
I don't think any of these companies use Rust much. You may find teams here and there using it but the vast majority of the Rust type stuff is written in C++ or Java.
- camdenreslink 6y ago
  Firecracker is written in rust and is from Amazon.
  - dodobirdlord 6y ago
    Firecracker being a modified fork of Google’s crosvm project.
    - jdub 6y ago
      Not really. They share some dependencies, and there's quite a bit of desire to work on those dependencies together (via the rust-vmm project).
      - mav3rick 6y ago
        It literally forked from crosvm.
- steveklabnik 6y ago
  It depends on what you mean by "much." If you mean "as a volume of LOC of total software development," absolutely. But if you mean "not being used for anything big" or "not being used for anything important," that is very much wrong.
  - pjmlp 6y ago
    In what concerns Microsoft, I am yet to see anything besides Win32 and WinRT bindings generation. UWP/WinUI foundations are in C++ and .NET. Azure Sphere, despite all the security selling marketing uses C based SDK. Windows kernel seemed to be in the right direction adopting more C++ and less C, specially with the userspace drivers COM SDK, but they just reverted to more C support on the latest versions. So in what concerns Microsoft, I look forward to their Rust's adoption, although currently its adoption is yet to be reflected on the Windows development ecosystem.
kelnos 6y ago
That metric doesn't really matter for that purpose. If AWS gets enough customer requests to warrant building a rust SDK, they'll do it. It doesn't have much to do with internal rust adoption at AWS.
ArchOversight 6y ago
While not official, there is at least one or two Amazonians working on https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto which is a pretty great Rust AWS SDK.
- habitue 6y ago
  Just wanted to point out in case you didn't see it, that rusuto currently needs a fulltime maintainer! They're in maintenance mode currently, no one is spending much time on it since the primary maintainer stepped back.
  - ibraheemdev 6y ago
    An AWS tech lead mentioned that they were working on an official Rust SDK a while back

I don't think any of these companies use Rust much. You may find teams here and there using it but the vast majority of the Rust type stuff is written in C++ or Java.

camdenreslink 6y ago
Firecracker is written in rust and is from Amazon.
- dodobirdlord 6y ago
  Firecracker being a modified fork of Google’s crosvm project.
  - jdub 6y ago
    Not really. They share some dependencies, and there's quite a bit of desire to work on those dependencies together (via the rust-vmm project).
    - mav3rick 6y ago
      It literally forked from crosvm.
steveklabnik 6y ago
It depends on what you mean by "much." If you mean "as a volume of LOC of total software development," absolutely. But if you mean "not being used for anything big" or "not being used for anything important," that is very much wrong.
- pjmlp 6y ago
  In what concerns Microsoft, I am yet to see anything besides Win32 and WinRT bindings generation. UWP/WinUI foundations are in C++ and .NET. Azure Sphere, despite all the security selling marketing uses C based SDK. Windows kernel seemed to be in the right direction adopting more C++ and less C, specially with the userspace drivers COM SDK, but they just reverted to more C support on the latest versions. So in what concerns Microsoft, I look forward to their Rust's adoption, although currently its adoption is yet to be reflected on the Windows development ecosystem.

kelnos 6y ago

That metric doesn't really matter for that purpose. If AWS gets enough customer requests to warrant building a rust SDK, they'll do it. It doesn't have much to do with internal rust adoption at AWS.

ArchOversight 6y ago

While not official, there is at least one or two Amazonians working on https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto which is a pretty great Rust AWS SDK.

habitue 6y ago
Just wanted to point out in case you didn't see it, that rusuto currently needs a fulltime maintainer! They're in maintenance mode currently, no one is spending much time on it since the primary maintainer stepped back.
- ibraheemdev 6y ago
  An AWS tech lead mentioned that they were working on an official Rust SDK a while back