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by pornel 2696 days ago
Rust is mainstream at Cloudflare. It's used for many new projects. New projects naturally start small.

There are millions of lines of existing production code in other languages, but they won't get rewritten. Even if they would be better in Rust, there's a high opportunity cost of rewriting existing code that works, instead of spending the effort on adding value elsewhere.