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In the same way Rust appears in ... (5,1% - 4.8% Professional Developers). The big players are looking for commercial long term safety about the used tools, platforms, programming languages and their ecosystems. After that, the technical discussion will take place.

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I'm not sure who "the big players" are in your book but the largest software engineering organizations in the world are already using Rust. The post is about one of them committing their resources to the project itself.

Caution doesn't make money, it just prevents losing as much money. When it comes to technology if you're waiting for everyone else to validate an idea, you're too late.

"...the largest software engineering organizations in the world are already using Rust ...", and also for a long long time have been using Java, JavaScript, SQL, and much more programming languages. ¿It's only about new (and better) ways to develop software or can also be 'cool' to interfere in the evolution of the programming language that you plan to use for the next years ? I 'm not against to use Rust or any other programming language, open source project or technology. I mean, the companies love open source projects because they can produce their self flavor as a product (search engine, linux distro, containers and orchestration technologies, etc.) when they wish that, without worries about uncomfortable dependencies.

AWS loves Rust in the same way than Facebook loved PHP.

No not at all but even if that we’re the case fb taking an interest spurred PHP from a legacy language back into a living language that’s growing in features.

> the largest software engineering organizations in the world are already using Rust.

That doesn't mean much because it is true for probably most serious technologies out there. Most of those organizations also have a perl script somewhere. Does that mean their core products are written in perl? Nope.

That being said, Rust is certainly successful and seeing growing adoption.

This isn't just anecdotal usage, we've seen plenty of Rust blog posts, job offers and opensource releases from these companies.

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