alt Hacker News> We believe that this is the largest rollout globally of any library written in Rust.
I suppose this is true because there's more phones using WhatsApp than there are say Windows 11 PCs.
Given that WhatsApp uses libsignal, is it safe to assume that they haven't been using the Rust library directly?
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pjmlp • yesterday at 10:45 AM
If you watch "Microsoft is Getting Rusty: A Review of Successes and Challenges" it appears the whole effort is more on the Azure side, and besides some timid adoption like GDI regions, there is a lukewarm adoption of Rust on Windows side, still pretty much a C and C++ feud.
WhatsApp doesn't use libsignal, and Android is already pretty Rusty and deployed more than WhatsApp around the world (not just smartphone. Tons of "embedded" use cases also run on custom Android)