Somebody with an HN account said that they write Rust for a purpose and company he won’t disclose? Well, that shows me.
As for purpose, there’s this blog post [0]:
> At this point, Discord is using Rust in many places across its software stack. We use it for the game SDK, video capturing and encoding for Go Live, Elixir NIFs, several backend services, and more.
[0]: https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...