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By total LoC owned, sure. I would be completely unsurprised if 20% of major companies in those industries have significant components written in Rust within a d
by AlotOfReading 2y ago
By total LoC owned, sure. I would be completely unsurprised if 20% of major companies in those industries have significant components written in Rust within a decade. It's been a long time since there was this much language interest within the embedded/safety critical domains.
- tonfa 2y agoYeah embedded software strikes me as one of those areas where rust can really shine (and where the cost of a crash can be high esp. if you run close to bare metal).
- dralley 2y agoPenetration into those domains has still been pretty brutally slow. AFAIK only Volvo is shipping Rust code, in 2 models of car, and not for anything safety-critical yet. That's not a demerit to Rust, just a testament to the conservatism of those industries.
- AlotOfReading 2y agoI'm aware of Rust code in various states of "development/experimentation" within GM and Toyota, as well as rust applications that might already be in your home if you've purchased any expensive, brand name appliances recently. It's slow, but happening.
- mywittyname 2y agoI worked in the automotive space (CAD/CAE/CAM) and there was tons of code that had commit headers starting in 1996 - the year they moved the previous code base into that particular VCS. Plenty of files had less than 10 commits to them since. They still had some FORTRAN in the code base. According to my coworker who worked there for 25 years, his first project at the company involved the initiative to replace FORTRAN with C. So yeah, there's plenty of C code hanging around that's not going anywhere.
- solarkraft 2y agoI wonder whether Rust will stick similarly because that's just how things go, less because now the migration process has been tested and the system is more flexible as a while or more because it's really pretty good enough this time.