Comment by MrJohz

It's worth reading Asahi Lina's posts about writing a driver in a Linux - she is very explicit that what they've achieved would not have been possible without Rust.

See, for example:

https://xcancel.com/linaasahi/status/1577667445719912450?s=4... https://vt.social/@lina/113056457969145576 https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/

In fairness, this is one team working on one project, but if they're attributing much of their success to Rust, it's probably worth listening to and understanding why, particularly as I don't believe they were particularly evangelistic about Rust before this project.

I have no idea about the Google funding, but Marcan's blog post is very explicit they they do not have any corporate sponsorship. If you believe that to be untrue, please explain your reasoning rather than spreading unsubstantiated rumours.