Comment by dralley

You have a point but it's just hyperbole in the other direction. Yes, Rust is only a small fraction of the code in use every day, but it has nonetheless achieved deep penetration into critical infrastructure.

Cloudflare's network routing code is predominantly Rust. Massive parts of AWS and Azure are Rust (including crown jewels like S3 and Lambda). Multiple car manufacturers have shipping Rust code in their production cars for years, albeit yes it's a slow process intoroducing it into regulated industries. Airbus and Boeing are putting up job openings for Rust development. As mentioned critical pieces of Windows and Android are now written in Rust. If you use Discord - that's Rust. If you use Amazon Prime Video or Disney+, that's Rust. I could go on.

When like 40% of internet traffic and 75% of end user devices are using Rust in some capacity, to say that it's "not production" is just ignorant, arrogant nonsense.