[stormbrew]

To clarify: Relative to Google and Facebook, which have built up immense c++ codebases that span the entire companies.

I spent 8 years at Apple, mostly working in C and then rust, both even smaller pieces of the Apple language pie.

But I also did a little c++. I have commits in swift for eg (though I wasn't on the team and they were pre-oss, so you'd have to dig real deep to find them now).

Most of the services side of the company, which is where I was, was java ime. A lot of shift to Go in the last few years though. And that's a very quickly growing part of the company where you can't do a local check to find out language use. It's also the only part where rust is viable, because the product side of the company has much stricter limitations on what they'll build for distribution and as of when I'd left, adding rust to that mix was not even on the radar there.

But the places where rust was gaining were small but important, which is the main thrust of what I was saying.

But anyways, with how siloed apple is experiences can differ a lot, even beyond normal for bigcorps. :/