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Rust at Google is in a bit of an awkward state. There's a bunch of teams/projects that have used it, but we haven't yet staffed a team to manage an internal Rust toolchain/ecosystem.

The most recent one was Kotlin, in large part because our Android ecosystem was increasingly having to play catch up, so we'll see if/when a Rust team gets staffed.

Rust has been adopted by multiple teams at Palantir. The bootstrap launcher for Palantir's ancient government software was rewritten in Rust to avoid having to ship Java 6. And some small piece of the custom software that Palantir wrote for BP to manage oil wells was written in Rust, because the single dev on the project was also a maintainer of some Rust crates and could get away with it.

While it has been picked at Microsoft, its relevance on the Windows developer eco-system is quite tiny.

It remains to be seen when it will even have a place on VS installer.