This post will analyze some data covering years of early adoption of Rust at Google. At Google, they have been seeing increased Rust adoption, especially in their consumer applications and platforms. Pulling from the over 1,000 Google developers who have authored and committed Rust code as some part of their work in 2022, they willl address some rumors head-on, both confirming some issues that could be improved and sharing some enlightening discoveries we have made along the way.

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[–] flynnguy@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Matches my experience with rust as well. Once I got used to some of the concepts and syntax, everything started to just fall into place.

[–] snaggen@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I started off with a C mindset and had a bit of a struggle the first days until the mental model of ownership and borrowing landed, after that it is mostly learning to use new concepts like pattern matching, the ? operator aso.