> Anyone deploying serverless code into Amazon instances is running of top of Firecracker, my phone has Rust code running on it, and whatever Windows 11 draws something into the screen, it goes through Rust rewrite of the GDI regions logic, all the Azure networking traffic going through Azure Boost cards does so via Rust firmware.
Ignoring it doesn't make those achievements political rather than technical.
I was referring to mandate to use it at big companies. This is a political achievement.
Teams/contributors making their own choice and then shipping good software counts as technical one but that wasn't the main point of the post I replied to.
> I was referring to mandate to use it at big companies.
I've worked in almost all of big tech, and these companies don't create mandate just because "Trust me bro" or to gain some "political achievements". Their are teams who champion new technology/languages, they create proof of what new technology will bring to the table which cannot be filled with existing ones.
I left amazon 7 years ago so don't know about recent development. However at Meta/Google teams are encouraged to choose from the mandate languages and if they can't they need to request for exemption and justify the exception.
> Anyone deploying serverless code into Amazon instances is running of top of Firecracker, my phone has Rust code running on it, and whatever Windows 11 draws something into the screen, it goes through Rust rewrite of the GDI regions logic, all the Azure networking traffic going through Azure Boost cards does so via Rust firmware.
Ignoring it doesn't make those achievements political rather than technical.