Ask HN: Which projects (applications) use Rust?

8 points by wirrbel 11y ago ↗ HN

I like rust and know that there are tons of rust libraries out there. However, when a friend recently asked me if there are any projects that use rust to build programs/applications/web services/projects, I couldn't really name more than Servo.

Which projects do sucessfully use Rust?

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squiguy7 11y ago ↗

These may count as libraries, but they are all building blocks for bigger projects.

Game engine: http://www.piston.rs/

HTTP library: http://hyper.rs/

Vim like editor: https://github.com/mathall/rim

Also, the built with Rust webpage: http://builtwithrust.com/

honest_joe 11y ago ↗

Well the language has just got stable only recently so it's only natural any real world projects were not that eager to adopt it.

Another thing is that a compiler has to be yet optimized as the performance is not that great compared to other "mature" solutions.

pdx 11y ago ↗

SAFE Network is now going to rust. These guys are porting all their code from C to Rust and really loving the experience. They are making their libraries stand-alone so they can easily be incorporated in other open source projects as well.

Wiki: https://safenetwork.wiki/en/Libraries

Github: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=user%3Amaidsafe+l...

marcofiset 11y ago ↗

The Servo browser engine: https://github.com/servo/servo