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0 pointsiterateoften2y ago0 comments

Large companies like Meta, Google, etc have Rust as part of their official stack. The market cap of companies that have Rust listed is pretty significant compared to Elixir.

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pron2y ago

Significant compared to Elixir, alarmingly low compared to languages that truly made it. By the way, the moment when large companies start adopting a language is critical. For a language to make it, it must spread like wildfire inside those companies; if it doesn't, that's a huge negative signal to more cautious observers.

iterateoftenOP2y ago

Not really, Rust can be 1% of the codebase but by Rusts nature it is implemented the most critical paths.

Rust is insanely awesome for embedding. So you can have Python app that 90% of your team works on and embed Rust for the critical parts to optimize.

But I get your point, however Rust is one of the most discussed programming languages in the past year on HN so it must be doing something right.

pron2y ago

> however Rust is one of the most discussed programming languages in the past year on HN so it must be doing something right.

That's true. It may even be more discussed here than Haskell was five years ago (though not nearly as hyped as Ruby was 15 years ago). Whether or not that's a good sign is up to interpretation, given that HN doesn't have a good record when it comes to market success and HN hype correlation. That's not surprising given that HN is more Vogue/GQ and less NY Times, i.e. it's less focused on what's happening and more on escapist wishes.

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iterateoftenOP2y ago

Not really, Rust can be 1% of the codebase but by Rusts nature it is implemented the most critical paths.

Rust is insanely awesome for embedding. So you can have Python app that 90% of your team works on and embed Rust for the critical parts to optimize.

But I get your point, however Rust is one of the most discussed programming languages in the past year on HN so it must be doing something right.

pron2y ago

> however Rust is one of the most discussed programming languages in the past year on HN so it must be doing something right.

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