Rust

  • Started in 2006 at Mozilla, first announced in 2010

    • Primary goals: a fast and secure language
    • Parts of Firefox are written in Rust

  • First stable release in 2015

    • New releases every 6 weeks, “edition 2021” released in Oct '21

  • Who uses it?

    • AWS: Firecracker powers Lambda and Fargate
    • Google: parts of the Fuschia operating system
    • Linux: 2nd official language for the Kernel!
    • CloudFlare: quic / http 3 implementation
    • Dropbox: file storage
    • Clever Cloud: reverse proxy
    • Atlassian, Canonical, Coursera, Chef, Deliveroo, NPM, Sentry…
    • Growing ecosystem for embedded development