rust-adoption.md

Rust adoption notes

Notes about major production deployments of Rust. Useful in cases where someone asks "who is actually using Rust?".

• Firefox

• Facebook uses Rust for source management, Diem, and other things

  • https://engineering.fb.com/2021/04/29/developer-tools/rust/
  • https://github.com/facebookexperimental/mononoke

• Amazon in AWS Fargate container orchestration

  • https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/03/02/firecracker/
  • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/bottlerocket-open-source-os-for-container-hosting/

• Google

  • Fuchsia operating system and ChromeOS
    • https://blog.cr0.org/2021/06/a-few-thoughts-on-fuchsia-security.html
      • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27487465
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22410460
  • Android's bluetooth stack
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26647981
  • Android OS generally
    • https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-android-platform.html
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26714478

• Microsoft's IoT Edge has a Rust component.

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

  • https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-our-sync-engine

• Cloudflare uses Rust for multiple purposes

• Reddit uses Rust on every request for markdown parsing

  • and other projects

• Apple

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/fkngza/apple_hiring_rust_engineers_for_storage_and/

• Mullvads VPN app

  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22410369

• 1password

  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22410587

• Sentry metrics monitor has components written in Rust

• Discord uses rust

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

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

• Linkerd service mesh's sidecar component is written in Rust

• Visual Studio Code ships with ripgrep

• System76

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

• 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.

• 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/).
  • 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/

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

Other lists

• https://kerkour.com/blog/rust-in-production-2021/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cmcw7q/fixing_c_with_epochs/ew3mr4c?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

  • my previous notes

• jturner's notes

  • https://www.jonathanturner.org/2018/07/snapshot-of-rust-popularity.html#rusts-commercial-users

• https://github.com/omarabid/rust-companies

• previous thread

  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22409838

• https://www.rust-lang.org/production