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There are three production deployments of Rust: OpenDNS, something I always forget, and Tilde, for Skylight.io.

(I'm starting to think it's only two and my brain made up the mysterious second one)

That said, you have to be a certain kind of person to use a pre-release programming language in production.

The best kind of person. :)

((Members of) Tilde are writing Rust's awesome new package manager, Cargo: http://crates.io/ )

Right, which was great, as "We already use Rust in production" combined with "we built Bundler" is a pretty decent pitch.

Sweet, thanks for the reply!

You say pre-release, is there a set release schedule for Rust?

The aim for 1.0 is for the end of this year; it will offer backwards compatibility at the language level (syntax and semantics of language constructs), and a subset of the standard library. The rest of the library will stabilised progressively.

(The compiler warns/errors when using a nonstable language or library feature, so it will be easy to stick to the stable parts, or at least know what may need to be adjusted when updating. The goal is to a strict semantic versioning plan too.)

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