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I work at Meta and I use tools written in bash, C, Java, Go, TypeScript, Kotlin and Dart daily. I've definitely noticed that some C++ tools are moving to Rust. I would have preferred to see D in its place, but it is what it is.

Personally I'm not a fan of Rust, but it is interesting to see how the language is growing as it hits mainstream. Lots of similarities with Go back when it was cool and hip.

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Not that you need to be a fan, but what are your reasons for not liking Rust? As a Rust developer, I'm always curious.

I think its killer feature is the memory safety guarantees, but other than that, I just don't find it as readable as other modern languages, mainly because it's symbol heavy.

Fair, but like any language this becomes a non-issue given enough time with it.

I've never liked the "you'll get used to it" approach to life.

I prefer to make my life harder by pursuing the perfect solution. It has bitten me in the behind multiple times in the past :)

Are your use of Dart related to flutter?

Yeap, our team has a few quick-and-dirty GUI tools in Flutter

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