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surajrmal | on: Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes
Yes, inertia. If those projects started today, they would likely choose rust.
pjmlp | parent
Why isn't rustc using Cranelift then?
nindalf | root | parent | next
Same reason Android and Chrome and git and Linux weren't written in Rust when they started. Rust didn't exist. All of these projects integrate Rust now, after being single language projects for the longest time.

It's notable that the projects you mentioned mostly don't need to deal with adversarial user input, while the projects I mentioned do. That's one area that Rust shines in.

pjmlp | root | parent
Rust presence in Android is minimal, and not officially supported for userspace.

Android team is quite clear that Java, Kotlin, C and C++ are the official languages for app developers.

Chrome even has less Rust than Firefox.

Linux has some baby adoption, and it isn't without drama, even with Microsoft and Google pushing for it.

nindalf | root | parent
Rust will never be in Android user space, because it's not competing with Kotlin. Kotlin is already excellent there. Rust will replace the parts of Android written in C++ gradually. That was always the plan. It feels weird and cope-y to move the goalposts to say it's not a big deal unless Rust also replaces Kotlin.

Chrome only needs to replace the parts of their codebase that handle untrusted input with Rust to get substantial benefits. Like codec parsers. They don't need to rewrite everything, just the parts that need rewriting. The parts that are impossible to get right in C++, to the point where Chrome spins up separate processes to run that code.

Rust is the future for Android, and it will become an important of Chrome and Linux and git (starting 3.0). That's just the way it is.

norman784 | root | parent
I can think a few reasons:

- Cranelift applies less optimizations in exchange for faster compilation times, because it was developed to compile WASM (wasmtime), but turns out that is good enough for Rust debug builds.

- Cranelift does not support the wide range of platforms (AFAIK just X86_64 and some ARM targets)

pjmlp | root | parent
So it isn't just a matter of "they would use Rust instead".

There is a whole ecosystem of contributions across the globe and the lingua franca used by those contributors.

andriy_koval | root | parent
> There is a whole ecosystem of contributions across the globe and the lingua franca used by those contributors.

which is slowly changing with wider rust adaptation.

pjmlp | root | parent
Where are the LLVM pull requests adding Rust code?
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