[jimbob45]

How hasn’t Google taken over and hired the Rust team? Weren’t they practically funding them by funding their parent, Mozilla?

[steveklabnik]

Well, most of the Rust team was not employed by Mozilla, so that’s one reason why they have not.

[nanagojo]

What about the Servo team? Wouldn't they have an impact on Rust development?

[steveklabnik]

They certainly contributed, yes, but there are like two hundred people total on all of the Rust teams. Losing them hurts, they’re fantastic folks, but Rust is just way bigger these days.

[jimbob45]

It’s just that the team is right there for the taking and it’s so easy to hold control over the most exciting language of the next five years as Google instead of MS EEE’ing Rust soon.

[FartyMcFarter]

Does Google care about Rust?

[pjmlp]

They use it on ChromeOS, Fuchsia, are thinking of introducing it on Android, and driving the conversations of using Linux kernel modules written in Rust.

[FartyMcFarter]

Thanks, that is more involvement than I expected / knew about!

[steveklabnik]

There's also experiments going on in Chrome, but nothing is for sure yet.