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This is the first of a two-part series. Intended as a more reliable, safer alternative to C++, software developer Graydon Hoare created Rust as a personal project while working at Mozilla Research in 2006.

So there is reasonable evidence of a substantial grassroots inclusion of the language by developers in large and small companies for production and development.

Amazon Web Services saw the advantages early as well, basing technologies like the virtualization technology https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/why-aws-loves-rust-and-how-wed-like-to-help/, the test tool, on Rust.

It is evident that the Rust language is on an uptrend and has substantial reasons behind its success, despite a few challenges.