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“Rust has won the “most loved programming language” award in Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey every year in 2016-2020. Perhaps that’s why large technology leaders such as the following have adopted Rust:” (RiA1)
“Amazon Web Services (AWS) has used Rust since 2017 for its serverless computing offerings, AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate. With that, Rust has gained further inroads. The company has written the Bottlerocket
OS and the AWS Nitro System to deliver its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. 1” (
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Cloudflare develops many of its services, including its public
DNS, serverless computing, and packet inspection offerings with Rust. 2” (
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Dropbox rebuilt its backend warehouse, which manages exabytes of storage, with Rust. 3” (
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Google develops parts of Android, such as its Bluetooth module, with Rust. Rust is also used for the crosvm component of Chrome
OS and plays an important role in Google’s new operating system, Fuchsia. 4” (
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Facebook uses Rust to power Facebook’s web, mobile, and
API services, as well as parts of HHVM, the HipHop virtual machine used by the Hack programming language. 5” (
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Microsoft writes components of its Azure platform including a security daemon for its Internet of Things (IoT) service in Rust. 6” (
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Mozilla uses Rust to enhance the Firefox web browser, which contains 15 million lines of code. Mozilla’s first two Rust-in-Firefox projects, its MP4 metadata parser and text encoder/decoder, led to overall performance and stability improvements.” (
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“GitHub’s npm, Inc., uses Rust to deliver “upwards of 1.3 billion package downloads per day.” 7” (
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Oracle developed a container runtime with Rust to overcome problems with the Go reference implementation. 8” (
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Samsung, via its subsidiary
SmartThings, uses Rust in its Hub, which is the firmware backend for its Internet of Things (IoT) service.” (
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“Rust is also productive enough for fast-moving startups to deploy it. Here are a few examples:” (RiA1)
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Figma employs Rust in the performance-critical components of its multi-player server. 10“ (
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Parity develops its client to the Ethereum blockchain with Rust. 11“ (
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