> The facts that Rust is quite young, has no shipping hero project as a case study
Dropbox using it sounds like a pretty good hero project...
Dropbox using it sounds like a pretty good hero project...
In one they say that Dropbox is investing multiple millions in a key piece of infrastructure written in Rust. One month later they say that the project is written in go with some Rust and it will "stay that way".
There was also a HN thread, maybe that contains more clues.
Their overall infrastructure is in Go and they're fine with that, they've (re)written specific components in Rust for memory savings (and CPU though less so), they have ~60kLOC of rust in production according to jamwt comments on reddit.