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Rust is where the action is though. It's not just about cumulative SLOC weight, but about mindshare among the "movers and shakers" of the industry. Think of it

Rust is where the action is though. It's not just about cumulative SLOC weight, but about mindshare among the "movers and shakers" of the industry. Think of it as a prestige language, an acrolect, you should at least vaguely know so that you can participate in the most challenging conversations in the field.

ryao 2y ago
That is an interesting perspective. Here is my perspective. There are no popular projects that use Rust as a primary language. The current fashionable area of computers is machine learning. As far as high level languages go, you will see a mix of Python, C++ and perhaps a tiny bit of C there. Rust is nowhere to be seen. Your description would be better applied to C, C++ and Python. That is what the majority of popular software uses and people having challenging conversations are often using one of those languages.
- tyre 2y ago
  > There are no popular projects that use Rust as a primary language. Servo is pretty notable and visible. ripgrep, influxdb, wasmer, deno. uv and ruff in the python ecosystem are written in rust. AWS, Cloudflare, Discord (iirc), and Microsoft have all adopted Rust extensively. As of late 2023 there are committed drivers in the Linux kernel written in rust. (Linux is pretty popular.) prior to those, only C and assembly were allowed.
  - ryao 2y ago
    None of this contradicts what I said.
  - quotemstr 2y ago
    Don't forget Pydantic
- dwattttt 2y ago
  > There are no popular projects that use Rust as a primary language You may be surprised to learn, Python's `cryptography` project is written (EDIT: maybe not primarily, it's hard to compare given dependencies) in Rust, and saw around 8.1 million downloads from PyPI yesterday. That puts it close to the top 20 (the 20th project comes in at 8.5m).
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nostradumbasp 2y ago
I would like to also point out that rust is boring as hell. Lots of otherwise ordinary people write super simple non-fancy programs using it too :)

ryao 2y ago

That is an interesting perspective. Here is my perspective. There are no popular projects that use Rust as a primary language. The current fashionable area of computers is machine learning. As far as high level languages go, you will see a mix of Python, C++ and perhaps a tiny bit of C there. Rust is nowhere to be seen. Your description would be better applied to C, C++ and Python. That is what the majority of popular software uses and people having challenging conversations are often using one of those languages.

tyre 2y ago
> There are no popular projects that use Rust as a primary language. Servo is pretty notable and visible. ripgrep, influxdb, wasmer, deno. uv and ruff in the python ecosystem are written in rust. AWS, Cloudflare, Discord (iirc), and Microsoft have all adopted Rust extensively. As of late 2023 there are committed drivers in the Linux kernel written in rust. (Linux is pretty popular.) prior to those, only C and assembly were allowed.
- ryao 2y ago
  None of this contradicts what I said.
- quotemstr 2y ago
  Don't forget Pydantic
dwattttt 2y ago
> There are no popular projects that use Rust as a primary language You may be surprised to learn, Python's `cryptography` project is written (EDIT: maybe not primarily, it's hard to compare given dependencies) in Rust, and saw around 8.1 million downloads from PyPI yesterday. That puts it close to the top 20 (the 20th project comes in at 8.5m).
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nostradumbasp 2y ago

I would like to also point out that rust is boring as hell. Lots of otherwise ordinary people write super simple non-fancy programs using it too :)