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This language really interests me, but I would like to know some real world applications that are being used for it. While I may enjoy writing it as a hobby, c

• reubenmorais 12y ago
  Mozilla is writing Servo, a parallel browser engine: https://github.com/servo/servo https://github.com/servo/servo There's a group of game developers writing Piston: http://www.piston.rs/ http://www.piston.rs/
• pdovy 12y ago
  The last I heard OpenDNS was using it for some data processing and Skylight was using it - see "Is Rust Ready Yet?" in http://cmr.github.io/blog/2014/01/12/the-state-of-rust-0-dot-9/ http://cmr.github.io/blog/2014/01/12/the-state-of-rust-0-dot.... This is 9 months old now, so maybe there are more projects now. That said I think the language is still too much in flux to really use for production systems. It seems to still be undergoing syntax changes, standard library changes, etc that might make code that works today not compile tomorrow.
  • davidu 12y ago
    We're using it. (OpenDNS)
• bjz_ 12y ago
  Game development, Application development (things like photoshop), high-load web service backends, embedded systems... basically anywhere that C++ is currently used. The cool thing about Rust is that it guides you towards writing performant code, with a much lower likelihood of ugly bugs. This means it has a lower barrier to entry that languages like C++ or C, where you need a high level of domain specific knowledge and experience in to avoid nasty pitfalls and mistakes.
• damien 12y ago
  Probably the largest application written in Rust is the Rust compiler itself.