[oshea64bit]

Maybe this is an ignorant question, but how exactly is Rust influenced by web dev? I don't see how the aspects that make Rust popular (ownership, lifetimes, strong type system etc.) contribute much to web dev in particular. Languages used for the web like JS, Python, Ruby seem popular precisely because they abstract lower-level details.

[swsieber]

There's definitely influence from the package manager side. There's probably also the influence on the push for a strong WASM story.

[mjtlittle]

Rust is heavily funded and maintained by Mozilla for use in Firefox's engine, Servo

[Ar-Curunir]

Working on a browser is not “web dev”, at least wrt how “web dev” is defined by many parts of the software community.

(Web dev is a totally cool and difficult engineering thing to do, it’s just disjoint from browser dev)

Anyway, Rust design is no longer influenced in any significant way by Servo, and most Rust contributors are not Mozillians

[exikyut]

AFAIK no it isn't anymore, it was one of the biggest teams jettisoned by Mozilla manglement in the layoffs a few weeks ago

(So, everyone promptly hyperfocused on how to bootstrap the Rust Foundation in a hurry)