The link I posted below contains commentary on why they chose Rust over various other languages. There were other production users of rust in 2014, notably Dro

The link I posted below contains commentary on why they chose Rust over various other languages. There were other production users of rust in 2014, notably Dropbox and a bunch of cryptocurrency stuff. But not very many, it’s true. A lot of folks waited until 2015 to start building on Rust after it stabilized.