I can just say wow. I didn't know about Rust and its capabilities until I saw his post. Great work!
It looks like fans like Rust, but not many people actually want to use it, so they rewrite random stuff, so maybe others will notice it somehow and start using it.
> Figma Our real-time multiplayer syncing server (used to edit all Figma documents) is written in Rust.
> npm, Inc - Replacing C and rewriting performance-critical bottlenecks in the registry service architecture.
> OVH - We used Rust to build a high performance, highly available log management system.
> QCERT (Qatar's National CERT) - DNS log analysis pipeline entirely written in rust, running on top of our own Rust stream processing platform.
> 1Password - We use Rust to power the entire backend (encryption, networking, database, and business logic) of all our client apps.
> Fire and Emergency NZ - The New Zealand Fire Service is using a custom geolocation search engine, built in rust, that runs on embedded hardware within a fire truck to stream hazard information to a fire crew at an incident.
> Deliveroo - We are using Rust to quickly make assignment decisions in our food delivery network.
> System76 - As a Linux-based computer-manufacture, much of our infrastructure and desktop Linux projects are written in Rust. From hardware certification, flashing, and imaging; to system services and GTK3 desktop applications.
> Canonical - Everything from server monitoring to middleware!
> Cloudflare - We are using Rust as a replacement for memory-unsafe languages (particularly C) and are using it in our core edge logic.
https://www.rust-lang.org/production/users
(that "the top of one person's head" is what defines existant vs non-existant, many wouldn't agree).
I’m quite wary of jq for the reason that usually I don’t need it often enough to learn its language. That would be another piece of software like this.