224 engineers on Hacker News describe using Rust first-hand: 88 endorse it, 12 regret it, 29 are mixed.
“I then got tired of dealing with C++ and rewrote everything in Rust, which is what I've been using ever since”
endorse · personal · mkeeter · 2026-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When compared with a Rust port of our service, the delta of the efforts is absolutely astronomical.”
endorse · production · switchbak · 2026-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I really like running rust infra projects, and have been using stalwart for a long time.”
endorse · personal · Depurator · 2026-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“porting from dart to rust reduced memory from around 450MB to about 30MB at about 50% of the CPU.”
endorse · production · bsutto · 2026-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the friction of dealing with Rust wouldn't be worth it”
regret · personal · thraxil · 2026-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Flutter + Rust... It's a joy to work with and run on all major desktop/mobile platforms with little effort”
endorse · personal · yhjc2692 · 2026-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I finally gave in to the rust hype and built a new project in it... Almost instant regret.”
regret · personal · s08148692 · 2026-10-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The runtime performance is much better, but the compiler time performance is terrible.”
mixed · production · dminik · 2026-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Rust in the browser since early days and noticed a number of interesting points.”
endorse · personal · rekireki · 2025-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rust has been pretty good for formal verification so far.”
endorse · personal · gaogao · 2025-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Rust with LLMs for a long time (mid-2023?) now; cargo check and the cargo package system make it very easy”
endorse · personal · 2.5 yr · hadlock · 2025-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the last few I've done, I actually went straight to Rust. The downside is that it's quite slow to develop”
mixed · personal · mynameisash · 2025-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I now write either and basically exclusively write Rust these days and a bit of C/C++ at work.”
endorse · production · landr0id · 2025-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been running a rust app for my personal trading app and a small service at a very large FAANG company for more than 3 years”
endorse · production · 3 yr · super_flanker · 2025-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“multiple services and programs running in prod under heavy use for years without having to revist the code to deal with bugs.”
endorse · production · sophacles · 2025-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In general I view the borrow checker as a good friend looking over my shoulder so I don't shoot myself in the foot in production.”
endorse · production · nostradumbasp · 2024-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our implementations far surpassed performance of other GC languages in the areas that mattered.”
endorse · production · nostradumbasp · 2024-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There are many times the Rust compiler told me I couldn't do something I had insisted would be fine, only to ponder and realize”
endorse · personal · ModernMech · 2024-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I run several grpc apis written in rust in prod ... something like rust shines”
endorse · production · tuetuopay · 2024-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using rust for my personal projects for the past 2 years but I still feel like I code faster in C++”
mixed · personal · 2 yr · lilly-lizard · 2024-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At $WORK we have been using Rust this way for a few years now and it has been great.”
endorse · production · 3 yr · thesuperbigfrog · 2024-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I lack the ability to tolerate arguing with the compiler when I know the code is correct”
regret · production · grayhatter · 2024-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the benefit is I can use normal Rust to format my variables, etc into whatever string format I need”
endorse · personal · merely-unlikely · 2024-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“code written in Rust did wake me up in the middle of the night more than Go did... I would still use Rust every day”
mixed · production · blixt · 2024-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Great type system, great performance, great packages, great tooling... I'm most familiar in Rust now.”
endorse · personal · FridgeSeal · 2024-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It seemed worth the trade-off to me and I regret not having more opportunities to work with it professionally in the time since.”
endorse · personal · smolder · 2024-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm at least as annoyed today by some 'as' casts as I was when I learned Rust”
mixed · personal · tialaramex · 2024-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It forces you to deal with the problems up-front rather than 6-12 months later once something is in prod.”
endorse · personal · sophacles · 2024-07-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This gives me confidence that the rust code I ship will run in prod without failing due to some unforeseen error.”
endorse · production · perrygeo · 2024-06-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am once again getting lots of opportunities to use Rust in my freelance work.”
endorse · production · jbirer · 2023-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've experienced rust sometimes normalizes intentionally writing code that is effectively if()elif()elif()else{abort();} as a result of the a culture of panic”
mixed · personal · nullc · 2023-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it seriously on nightly for a while already… its ergonomics are off putting.”
mixed · personal · gdcbe · 2023-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But to this day, I'm not 100% convinced that was good choice - I don't know how much faster is Rust in our case vs .NET”
mixed · production · fenring · 2023-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have recently introduced Rust into my workplace... now I have learned to use Rust there is no way I am going back to those languages!”
endorse · production · adampwells · 2023-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use both C++ and Rust in production environments... Rust async story is a hot mess, and you really need async for scalable, performant systems software.”
mixed · production · jandrewrogers · 2023-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is not true at all in my experience. I work on Materialize... We use very little unsafe/MaybeUninit/C-like code.”
endorse · production · School-Cotton · 2023-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At five years, the quality of my Rust code blows everything else out of the water.”
endorse · production · 8 yr · stouset · 2023-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I mostly work in Rust now but still am and will always be a huge fan of the project”
endorse · production · sam0x17 · 2023-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I remain unconvinced about the viability of Rust for many kinds of systems programming.”
regret · personal · ziandrome22 · 2023-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been doing Rust professionally since 2016.”
endorse · production · 7 yr · stusmall · 2023-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My team is a Rust shop at $DAYJOB that I created basically from scratch... Started a company, onboarded just about everyone to Rust. It went very well.”
endorse · production · insanitybit · 2023-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My team is a Rust shop at $DAYJOB that I created basically from scratch... much agreed, that is my #1 pain point in rust”
mixed · production · tuetuopay · 2023-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I for one am pretty satisfied with async rust”
endorse · production · mplanchard · 2023-11-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Crazy compile times with Rust (compared to D), but we are happy with production runtimes!”
mixed · production · arunc · 2023-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rust turned out to be the best technical bet we ever took.”
endorse · production · hannofcart · 2023-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Going from Typescript to Rust was not as big a change but well designed statically typed languages are a productivity booster”
endorse · production · brigadier132 · 2023-08-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've only made the mistake to prototype stuff with Rust once. Never again.”
regret · personal · pdimitar · 2023-05-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the default Vec and String types in rust's standard library allocate even if the contents would fit in a pointer.”
mixed · production · josephg · 2023-04-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The Rust ecosystem has some great packages for CSS and layout (we and Bevy comaintain Taffy)”
endorse · production · jkelleyrtp · 2022-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we ditched it anyway, because maintenance cost would be too high.”
regret · production · habibur · 2022-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've written and maintained data pipelines, and API layers for downstream teams in prod in Rust, and it was a much more pleasant and low-effort experience”
endorse · production · FridgeSeal · 2022-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Learning Rust was fine. Not trivial, but definitely worthwhile.”
endorse · personal · FridgeSeal · 2022-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My startup uses Rust in production for our web APIs, and we're really happy with it.”
endorse · production · echelon · 2022-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rust is very efficient at run time. (Not at programming time nor compile time) ... (On the Raspberry Pi I use Rust for realtime control of audio processes)”
mixed · personal · worik · 2022-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been writing a metaverse client in Rust for two years, and I'm about 35,000 lines of safe Rust in.”
mixed · personal · 2 yr · Animats · 2022-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have written webservers in TypeScript and Rust.”
endorse · personal · kajaktum · 2022-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run https://FakeYou.com on Rust/Actix/sqlx... Rust is fantastic for working with audio or video on the server.”
endorse · production · echelon · 2022-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In the last few years, I just rewrite everything I possibly can in Rust and I've yet to regret it.”
endorse · production · beebmam · 2022-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“What rust feels like: you are riding a bike, but it has six safety wheels instead of any normal wheels.”
regret · personal · nurettin · 2022-09-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've had zero, absolutely zero issues with all the other stacks.”
endorse · production · brabel · 2022-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in prod code I rarely use unwrap/expect, however, some code would be very tedious to write without unwrap or potentially panicking code”
endorse · production · nu11ptr · 2022-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when I write Rust I won't have those mistakes (although it'll take me longer to get something to prod)”
endorse · personal · likeabbas · 2022-06-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been doing Rust for 3 years now and I have decided that I will never again accept a job offer that makes me write C++ or Java.”
endorse · production · 3 yr · baby · 2022-06-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Everything worked great, including running a multithreaded tokio runtime. Still do not recommend in prod ;)”
mixed · production · mcronce · 2022-03-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after having worked with Rust on-and-off over the last 4-5 years it just gets exhausting hearing about”
endorse · production · 4 yr · ragnese · 2022-01-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I did a lot last year in Rust and k (the polar opposites?); Rust was really annoying for this kind of thing.”
regret · personal · 1 yr · tluyben2 · 2021-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Most of my experience with using Rust in production was with a message queue type of service, where the desire was to minimize latency”
endorse · production · Lorkki · 2021-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use it during the work week and it solves a lot of problems”
endorse · production · hresvelgr · 2021-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the Rust stm32 HALs offered by the open-source community and they are stellar.”
endorse · personal · ostenning · 2021-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we write our WASM modules in Rust as well and share a lot of crates from our native Rust code and GPU Rust code.”
endorse · production · repi · 2021-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rust has been my goto language for several years for multiple projects... It's not suitable for every purpose.”
mixed · personal · axegon_ · 2021-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have found Rust to be a surprisingly good replacement for a lot of my Python use-cases.”
endorse · personal · paulgb · 2021-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the rust implementation is pretty damn ergonomic. Certainly better than C++ or C# IMHO”
endorse · production · dagmx · 2021-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've invested in Rust and don't regret it so far. I love the language and the tooling. However, I'm not sure if I'd choose Rust again.”
mixed · personal · o_wa_32 · 2021-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched over to Rust fairly early on, and we were glad we did.”
endorse · production · LASR · 2021-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Rust in automotive where MISRA C is required, and the only thing we needed was to certify it.”
endorse · production · volta83 · 2021-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In complex projects I've opted for Rust over Go just because of the abstraction power”
endorse · production · hombre_fatal · 2021-02-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“to actually build something I want to build with long-term value in mind, either individually or as part of a team, I just use Rust.”
endorse · production · jamwt · 2021-02-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Go and Rust for so long i've forgotten what classical inheritance is actually useful for”
endorse · personal · adkadskhj · 2020-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Luckily embedded Rust is really looking good these days, and I've been using it a bit lately.”
endorse · production · qdot76367 · 2020-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after using Rust for a while, I'd hands-down choose it over C++... the ergonomics are just so much better”
endorse · personal · cylon13 · 2020-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'd thoroughly recommend it as a first low-level language... The Rust compiler gave me immediate feedback... (no unexpected bugs in production)”
endorse · production · nicoburns · 2020-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The primary reason why I love Rust is that the compiler catches most of my bugs at compile time.”
endorse · production · aliceryhl · 2020-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We ditched their approach and went with a board that could run Rust and the rest was easy.”
endorse · production · sam0x17 · 2020-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rust in prod has been bittersweet for us. Deterministic memory management and bare metal performance are great and have been realized benefits.”
mixed · production · throwaway78123 · 2020-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to Rust with Rocket, overcoming our fears of lack of maturity.”
endorse · production · Erazal · 2020-09-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's not as simple as it seems. The issues we've run into have made us reconsider porting our FS handlers to Rust, although we are cautiously optimistic about later results.”
mixed · production · phjesusthatguy3 · 2020-07-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was a big Rust fan, but must admit I'm now tired of the overpromotion and hype.”
mixed · personal · challenge441 · 2020-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the only time that I looked at it (very early on) it was so slow as to be unusable from my perspective”
regret · personal · jacquesm · 2019-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“using Rust libraries in a new Rust project is a lot easier than using C libraries in a new C project”
endorse · personal · roca · 2019-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For the last few years I've been using C less though, as I prefer Rust anyway.”
endorse · personal · codetrotter · 2019-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“both awesome at parallelism in this case.”
endorse · production · summarity · 2019-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“one of the ecosystem challenges we run into is that while Rust is abstractly a fantastic choice for the domain of systems development”
mixed · production · im_down_w_otp · 2019-09-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to Rust only for the lower level code, the parts that interfaces with sensors and the motors, that do the data logging”
endorse · production · m-ou-se · 2019-04-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I love Go and Rust and optimizing just one Lambda at a time brought back the programme joy in my life”
endorse · production · InGodsName · 2018-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Rust extensively for over 2 years... the language complexity has increased substantially. It's already at a stage where I'm worried about losing track.”
mixed · personal · 2 yr · the_duke · 2018-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the advent to learn Rust. I'm pretty happy with my progress so far. But for the most part it's gone swimmingly.”
endorse · personal · forrestthewoods · 2018-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Rust professionally for web development almost four years now and on January I'll start a new job which allows me to continue with the language.”
endorse · production · 4 yr · pimeys · 2018-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I found Rust to be a nicer way to work on lower level projects.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · Macha · 2018-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Rust for two years now and have invoked your code probably a hundred times over.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · zanny · 2018-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“They just don't pay for the cognitive burden, since the applications I write aren't critical systems”
regret · production · weberc2 · 2018-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I even have a bit of Rust in production at work and I haven't encountered any maintenance issue so far.”
endorse · production · simias · 2018-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been working on an XDP deployment with Rust as the control plane language”
endorse · production · ilovecaching · 2018-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The best part is that the code base is way easier to manage, and it's much easier to keep adding to the code add without causing regressions.”
endorse · production · ilovecaching · 2018-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The biggest issue that you have to get used to is that pretty much everything has to be owned data... This is easy to mess up and regret later”
mixed · personal · bluejekyll · 2018-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“has made a significant investment in rust, we have rewritten some code that elixir was too slow at in rust”
mixed · production · jhgg · 2018-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With Rust this approach doesn't work (for me). I have not been able to pick up Rust.”
regret · personal · gravypod · 2017-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using (and like) Rust for NLP-related projects, so the course will be fun.”
endorse · personal · microtonal · 2017-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“for all my greenfield stuff Rust has been a welcome breath of fresh air.”
endorse · personal · vvanders · 2017-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“While I still run into some things with the borrow checker, I find I'm much better at predicting them”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · agmcleod · 2017-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Rust for two years. I never worry about the borrow checker as it never gives me problems.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · mmstick · 2016-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been in production with Rust almost six months already. Couldn't be happier with the language.”
endorse · production · 0.5 yr · pimeys · 2016-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I like Rust a lot ... I'm just less enthused about the prospect of refactoring my codebase once every few months to stay current”
mixed · personal · groovy2shoes · 2016-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I see no reason not to go into production at the moment”
endorse · production · bluejekyll · 2016-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“had been using rust for several months before that) and I've never found a group of crates that intermix so well together”
endorse · personal · 0.5 yr · silluk · 2016-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using rust to as a more performance-oriented tool alongside python.”
endorse · personal · cmyr · 2016-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Rust to process fairly large amounts of streaming financial data.”
endorse · production · olauzon · 2016-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Rust for the past year. Lack of tail calls kind of hurt the FP side of it”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · __s · 2016-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've had a lot of experience and success in Rust with iterators, which share a lot of the same API design philosophy.”
endorse · production · aturon · 2016-08-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to Rust and we all were happy, and transitioning was fine.”
endorse · personal · zZorgz · 2016-06-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I hate our current lifetime elision rules, as do many people who have been using Rust for a while.”
regret · personal · Jweb_Guru · 2015-06-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There's certainly a lot of room for improvement in Rust's build times, but LLVM was completely indispensable”
mixed · production · pcwalton · 2015-06-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We now do exactly what was suggested in the paper. Rust enables overflow checking in debug, and we run our CI in debug anyway”
mixed · production · Manishearth · 2015-06-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“everything I've seen of and tried with Rust is amazing”
endorse · personal · getsat · 2014-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using Rust in production for awhile now, specifically because of its combo of native speed and memory safety”
endorse · production · tomdale · 2014-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm using Rust at my startup. The prototype version was written in F#, but that means you're anyways fighting memory allocation”
endorse · production · MichaelGG · 2014-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Rust for over a year in my product and it matched my needs pretty closely.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · wycats · 2014-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In Rust, we use `unsafe` to hoist logic out of C wherever possible, to make our code even more safe; even the unsafe dialect of Rust is safer than C.”
endorse · production · kibwen · 2014-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Rust for finite element method research, and I've been pretty happy with the results”
endorse · production · sixbrx · 2013-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“every time we use a compiled language like Go or Rust or C++.”
neutral · production · jgrahamc · 2026-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“500k lines of rust code. Made in around 6 weeks worth of 8-15 agents working continuously.”
neutral · personal · 0.1 yr · pierrekin · 2026-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The core of it uses rust with no_std and on the pico we use embassy-rs with no os.”
neutral · personal · sheepseb · 2026-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“critique my (agents) rust code”
neutral · personal · Jonovono · 2026-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm working at a company with a very large Rust codebase with thousands of endpoints.”
neutral · production · demurgos · 2026-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Never mind that I'm writing Rust.”
neutral · personal · davepeck · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've worked with rust for 4 years, systems side, and never had to write a custom drop implementation.”
neutral · production · 4 yr · jvanderbot · 2026-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've built an open source observability data lake using Rust, that handles high-cardinality data at around 100M time series in production”
neutral · production · yashdotrv · 2026-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Having to build all dependencies of rust including python and openssl and everything else”
neutral · production · lrvick · 2026-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have multiple AI-assisted Rust rewrites running in production now.”
neutral · production · mhils · 2026-09-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“No real world example, because I don't think we've run into memory safety issues with unsafe in the Rust code base I work in”
neutral · production · toast0 · 2026-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm working in Rust now, because that's what the employer wants to do and it works enough.”
neutral · production · toast0 · 2026-09-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run with Rust Embedded and support other targets than Espressif”
neutral · personal · braincode · 2026-09-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At work we use Rust primarily for services. It was chosen because we're doing a lot of low level and performance sensitive work.”
neutral · production · insanitybit · 2026-08-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rust is for passion projects where I want to enjoy coding something”
neutral · personal · zamalek · 2026-05-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We were looking at using code-fence like syntax in Rust and we were worried about people knowing how to embed it”
neutral · production · epage · 2026-01-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“startup times are quite impressive (easily sub-second for our Rust application)”
neutral · production · droelf · 2025-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using QML with Rust. Better type integration would be nice though.”
neutral · personal · kalaksi · 2025-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using rust for 8+ years”
neutral · production · 8 yr · osiris88 · 2025-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“All of the front-end is in fact pure Rust, I know that because I am one of the huge number of authors.”
neutral · production · tialaramex · 2025-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've learned a lot about Rust by having it build things for me, then working with that code.”
neutral · personal · kevin42 · 2025-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As a means to learn about both WebAssembly and Rust, I started writing a WebAssembly binary decoder”
neutral · personal · pasxizeis · 2025-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a hard sci-fi orbital tactics sandbox and battlefield simulator written in Rust with Bevy.”
neutral · personal · tobyhede · 2025-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“for the pretty bog-standards ways I'd been using Rust and Go.”
neutral · personal · lynndotpy · 2025-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Switched over to Codex when 5.1 came out... Really nice acceleration in my Rust/CUDA project which is a gnarly one.”
neutral · personal · mmaunder · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Mostly to typescript, a little rust, and Gleam, which is an absolute joy to use.”
neutral · personal · dkersten · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in a programming language that I barely know”
neutral · personal · dloss · 2025-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But 99% of the code I write is safe rust. And there's no equivalent in C or C++.”
neutral · personal · lowbloodsugar · 2025-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I amm currently playing with a small Rust+Aya agent that listens on ring buffers”
neutral · personal · parth21shah · 2025-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I haven't been writing Rust for that long (about 2 years) but every time I see .unwrap() I read it as 'panic in production'.”
neutral · personal · 2 yr · mamp · 2025-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run an OpenAI-compatible server using a Tauri plugin and call it using the Vercel AI SDK.”
neutral · production · yujonglee · 2025-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Practically all the bottlenecks we run into with Rust compilation have to do with the LLVM passes.”
neutral · production · lsuresh · 2025-06-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“about 10 years of Java/C++/Rust/Python under my belt (focused on Financial Market applications)”
neutral · production · 10 yr · phyalow · 2025-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We are small team, rust shop and we shipped Tauri for a couple years to more than 20k users.”
neutral · production · Sytten · 2025-04-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“So we wrote matrix-authentication-service (MAS) in Rust, which is released as FOSS”
neutral · production · Arathorn · 2025-01-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have way too much custom elisp to build and debug Rust/Go/C++”
neutral · personal · arrsingh · 2024-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've worked professionally with Rust for 3 years, and embedded Rust for 2.”
neutral · production · 3 yr · sshine · 2024-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Implemented in Rust in my case (and we also support Flexbox and Block layout).”
neutral · production · nicoburns · 2024-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“even switched to Rust for efficient JSON diffs”
neutral · production · moshloop · 2024-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My holy grail will still be landing on a good multi-layer configuration setup for Rust CLIs.”
neutral · personal · liambigelow · 2024-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Did it the last 2-3 years in Rust, hanging out in a discord where we all try to make the absolute fastest solutions.”
neutral · personal · 2 yr · zaptheimpaler · 2024-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we completely rewrote the application in Typescript and Rust.”
neutral · production · obeavs · 2024-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I work in a large code base with 1800+ crate dependencies (don't ask) with half of them being unstable crates”
neutral · production · cropcirclbureau · 2024-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Instead we implemented the spreadsheet engine in Rust as a columnar engine”
neutral · production · breckognize · 2024-06-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run a large Rust app in under 1 MB of WebAssembly at Zscaler.”
neutral · production · fathyb · 2024-05-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The last 5 or so years I've mostly done work in rust”
neutral · production · 5 yr · sophacles · 2024-02-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's been fun for learning rust. I've only done DNS and web server modules so far”
neutral · personal · simtel20 · 2023-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a middleware (RoR, C#, Rust), nginx ingress and cert-manager”
neutral · production · b7we5b7a · 2023-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“with Rust currently as the side stack I'm learning”
neutral · personal · meiraleal · 2023-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've worked on Firefox, on Matrix, on Rust, on dozens of smaller projects.”
neutral · personal · Yoric · 2023-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently launched a startup, we use Java, some Python and even a little bit of Rust.”
neutral · production · olavgg · 2023-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I learned a bit of rust and wrote a minimal init system perfect for my use case”
neutral · personal · lrvick · 2023-06-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've worked in prod with all the cool languages (Scala, Haskell, Rust, Go, etc...)”
neutral · production · eddsh1994 · 2023-03-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it probably doesn't help that I've used Scala, Haskell, Rust, etc”
neutral · personal · xwowsersx · 2022-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use these languages on a daily to weekly basis at work.”
neutral · production · innocentoldguy · 2022-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The projects I work on are in the 32 bit ARM space, so we have more space than the projects you're talking about”
neutral · production · steveklabnik · 2022-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“using Rust for work now, so running cargo instead of make”
neutral · production · toast0 · 2022-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Rust, so I think a sane caching story is more important than anything else.”
neutral · production · tasn · 2022-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After working with Haskell, Rust, JavaScript, and many other languages in production all I look for is simplicity.”
neutral · production · eddsh1994 · 2022-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Tokei says that we've got ~76k lines of Rust.”
neutral · production · mplanchard · 2022-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“if we apply your solution everywhere we run into this problem with the borrow checker, it can flatten a lot of our program's”
neutral · production · moldavi · 2022-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When I go back to my old map/zip/method-chaining Rust code from a year or two ago, I regret doing so”
neutral · personal · 2 yr · nyanpasu64 · 2022-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have no problem refactoring large Scala apps or F# apps or even Rust apps”
neutral · production · darksaints · 2022-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“having built on things like Python+FastAPI, Node+Express/Hapi/Apollo, and Rust+Actix”
neutral · production · Tsarbomb · 2022-04-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“decreasing link times on the Rust project I work on from approximately 10 seconds to less than one second.”
neutral · production · nitsky · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using this set up in both VSCode for Rust and Java in IntelliJ.”
neutral · personal · PureParadigm · 2021-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wrote a Kalman filter implementation in "no-std" (no standard library) rust called adskalman... we use this with arm microcontrollers”
neutral · production · dr-ando · 2021-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Rust since 2016 and I've never installed a nightly version for code I was writing.”
neutral · personal · 4 yr · ragnese · 2020-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Rust and C++ for real time performance (we've got an in house 3D engine)”
neutral · production · tinco · 2020-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“while Rust has some really good libraries, damn does Diesel suck”
neutral · personal · sudosysgen · 2020-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Recently started my journey with Rust having worked with Elixir in production for about two years”
neutral · personal · dwoot · 2020-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A nice method I've found (and seems popular) is to use unsafe but use a debug_assert!.”
neutral · personal · staticassertion · 2020-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Maybe I'll write some throwaway code or a test that uses the new thing. (This is how I started playing with ranges)”
neutral · personal · wrsh07 · 2020-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've tried Python, Go, Rust, Julia.”
neutral · personal · meztez · 2019-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Added a verification step to prevent this in Rust code”
neutral · production · repi · 2019-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“checking for spurious uses of dbg! and unimplememted!, as well as println! in production code.”
neutral · production · bluejekyll · 2019-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Rust and mdbook to generate the course layout.”
neutral · production · nezaj · 2019-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use a lot of CI; those resources are not cheap. And it is central to the way we develop the language, so it really really matters.”
neutral · production · steveklabnik · 2019-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“(I've tried Rust and Go) the lsp-mode experience is flawless”
neutral · personal · jdormit · 2019-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“this is before we went with "rust 1.x builds with rust 1.(x - 1)"”
neutral · production · steveklabnik · 2019-05-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“which uses a Rust microservice backed by a Postgres database.”
neutral · production · Diggsey · 2018-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I haven't even been using a shim to run my Rust binaries. Just statically link them”
neutral · production · staticassertion · 2018-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we have even configured our dev env to roll to the new nightly Rust every week without any effort from the developer.”
neutral · production · blogle · 2018-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've never once tried or had the urge to use a debugger on Rust code. (I've been using Rust for almost 4 years.)”
neutral · personal · 4 yr · burntsushi · 2017-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Then we moved to Go and now we are in Rust.”
neutral · production · xstartup · 2017-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As a huge production user, Mozilla's needs are still important to us, but we think of Rust as an open source project Mozilla contributes to”
neutral · production · steveklabnik · 2017-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using Rust on production since the summer and we only use the stable compiler.”
neutral · production · 0.5 yr · pimeys · 2016-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been playing with it in two different editor.”
neutral · personal · hguant · 2016-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It doesn't have to do with Rust, just has to do with priorities.”
neutral · production · Manishearth · 2016-06-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our installations of nginx[1], Python[2], pip[3], rust[4], mongo, consul[4], openldap[1], gcc[3]”
neutral · production · deathanatos · 2015-03-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“on the bleeding edge, I'm spending some personal time messing around with Rust.”
neutral · personal · ekidd · 2014-07-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been making rust-http recently”
neutral · personal · chrismorgan · 2013-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use LLVM on Windows in Rust.”
neutral · production · pcwalton · 2012-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?