rust-adoption-notes.md

2020-02-24

Some notes about the question "who is actually using Rust?".

• Firefox

• Dropbox's storage backend is in Rust, probably other components as well

• Reddit uses Rust on every request for markdown parsing

• Amazon in AWS Fargate container orchestration

• Microsoft's IoT Edge has a Rust component.

• Facebook uses Rust for source management and other things

  • https://github.com/facebookexperimental/mononoke

• Cloudflare uses Rust for multiple purposes

• Rust makes up increasingly large parts of Google's Fuchsia operating system

• The popular Sentry metrics monitor has components written in Rust

• Discord uses rust

  • https://blog.discordapp.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust-a190bbca2b1f

• Rust is used by at least 33 blockchain companies

• There are multiple companies building Rust-in-secure-enclaves products, including Baidu. Not huge yet, but if enclaves catch on, Rust will be in a lot of them.

• Part of Figma's (popular design tool) backend is in Rust

• Parts of the Linkerd service mesh (which I believe is relatively popular) are written in Rust

• Rust command-line programs are increasingly popular, and Debian stable already ships with a number of them. ripgrep is particularly notable, but people outside of the Rust community are also using fd-find, exa, and hexyl. 4% of Debian packages are written in Rust. (https://bioreports.net/debian-riscv64-port-status/, https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/cap9ul/debian_10_released_contains_ripgrep_fdfind_exa/).

• Visual Studio Code ships with ripgrep

• System76

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/eezdg6/those_who_use_rust_in_production_what_are_you/

• Ticketmaster uses Rust in their rewrite (what's the status?)

• Links about Rust support in Debian

  • https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/cap9ul/debian_10_released_contains_ripgrep_fdfind_exa/
  • https://bioreports.net/debian-riscv64-port-status/