Rust lacunae [LWN.net]

Rust lacunae

Posted Jun 11, 2021 15:16 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Rust lacunae by Sesse
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Really sounds like you're moving the goalposts.

- Rust isn't used anywhere at Google. <shown uses>
- Oh, it's being looked at for Linux drivers, that's meaningless at the scale of Google.

As if on day 1 there has to be millions of lines of code for it to be meaningful. There is massive momentum for these kinds of things and it takes time. Google having their pet language probably has way more buy-in from management and whatnot, so that specific comparison isn't really useful in my mind.

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Rust lacunae

Posted Jun 11, 2021 18:08 UTC (Fri) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779) [Link]

_I_ am not moving the goalposts. It was said that Google was adopting Rust, and that this was proof of C++'s unsuitability. I pointed out that Google has a comparatively tiny adoption of Rust (at least to my knowledge), and now I'm suddenly being asked to defend the position “Rust isn't used anywhere at Google”? That's a strawman. I mean, Google uses x86 assembly code, too, but not at any large enough scale that it shows intent to move from C++ to assembly.