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I'm sure that developing a large application (Servo) in parallel with the language helped quite a bit.

To be fair, rustc is also a pretty huge application that they (and any self-hosted language) developed in parallel with Rust :D

(I'm pretty sure I remember hearing that rustc has more code at this point then servo does, but don't quote me on that)

If you just count *.rs files, rust and its in-tree libraries are around 400k lines, and Servo and its immediate dependencies are around 310k lines.

Caveat: use of 'find' and 'wc' is almost invariably totally misleading :-)

I should have probably said "non-compiler application" rather than just "application".