[mikebenfield]

Pretty damn mainstream nowadays, yes. Quite a few big tech companies are either actively doing much of their new systems programming in Rust, or else dipping their toes in.

I honestly don't know of a big tech company that is happy with the idea of just continuing to use C++ indefinitely - they are _all_ looking for alternatives, and Rust is the most obvious option.

[phendrenad2]

> Quite a few big tech companies are either actively doing much of their new systems programming in Rust, or else dipping their toes in

I don't think that's true. It seems to me that a lot of people believe this simply because a lot of other people believe it. You see it everywhere. "Oracle rewriting MySQL in Rust". "Microsoft rewrites Skype in Rust". "Linus Torvalds rewriting Linux in Rust". I have yet to see proof of any of it.

[pdimitar]

> I have yet to see proof of any of it.

It looks like you're actively avoiding finding that evidence.

Citing clickbait titles doesn't sound like you have actually looked.

[mikebenfield]

It is true. I’m not basing my statements off random info I gleaned from the internet.

[adastra22]

> I honestly don't know of a big tech company that is happy with the idea of just continuing to use C++ indefinitely

Every game company ever. And Google.

[Morgawr]

The Google team I work on (ChromeOS, crosvm[0] specifically) has been transitioning to Rust for a lot of our new services (mostly crosvm and stuff that interacts with it) and I couldn't be happier :)

[0] https://google.github.io/crosvm/

[adastra22]

The claim was "continuing to use C++ indefinitely." For that not to be true they'd have to be looking at replacing C++ entirely. Moving everything to rust/go/whatever. Do you foresee Google doing that?

[Morgawr]

Google as a company? Not necessarily, I don't have a crystal ball.

ChromeOS as a product? Maybe. (note: not Chrome)

ChromeOS platform internals? I totally could. You don't just rewrite everything from C++ to Rust, because that wouldn't make much sense, but more and more new service/products are being spun up that use Rust (we have docs and stuff https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/r...).

[mikebenfield]

This is not accurate.

[ncmncm]

More people pick up coding C++ professionally in any given week than the total being paid to code Rust full time.

The bigger a company is, the more various languages people there dabble in, and the less it means that somebody there dabbles in your favorite. You would better add up revenue (NB: not market cap) of companies specializing in using your favorite language; but that number would be disappointingly small for any language as far from maturity as Rust still is.

[pdimitar]

I wasn't aware that restating an entrenched state of affairs is an argument in a discussion.

Doubly so when that entrenched state of affairs is actively being attacked every day for years now.

But sure, let me not stop you.

[jcelerier]

Just checked Rust job offers on Linkedin in my country (France): 338.

C++: 27 172