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I mean, you're not wrong, but cherry-picking two examples that aren't really comparable isn't a good argument

• CraigJPerry 4y ago
  Agreed. It's hard to find examples of successful large Rust projects to compare against. The compiler and maybe deno are about it i think? This is not what you'd expect for an alleged developer rocket ship after 10+ years. It doesn't compare favourably with C++ at 10 years old, or Java, or Go, or...
  • sanxiyn 4y ago
    Largest Rust systems aren't public, like both Dropbox server and client. Millions of lines of Rust are shipping in Firefox, so we could count CVEs in Firefox attributable to Rust. I agree this is annoying, but someone should do this. I point out Rust in Firefox is an order of magnitude (10x) larger than rustc or deno.
    • casey2 4y ago
      It's not even millions yet, and Firefox along with Mozilla is already dying. When will the cargo cult end.
      • sanxiyn 4y ago
        Please... I ran line counter on mozilla/gecko-dev just before writing that. There are three millions. Go clone it and count yourself.
  • scaredginger 4y ago
    It sounds like you just have a bone to pick here, but I would like to point out that C++ came out of Bell Labs, Java had massive corporate backing including a huge marketing campaign and Go has Google's backing. Each of your examples had huge advantages unrelated to any technical benefit. A closer comparison might be Python, which took a long time to reach its potential, and I see Rust on the same trajectory, with high-profile teams now adopting it, like AWS.