How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust.

Jansens explains it's too risky to allow full cross-language C/C++ and Rust interoperability. The team looked at the implications of building Rust components against Chrome's "really wide C++ APIs".

Underlying this is data from the Popularity of Programming Language Index, which is created by analysing how often language tutorials are searched on Google. It found that Rust has grown the most ...

The Rust programming language has done just that, growing from one man's side project to one of today's most heavily supported open-source projects.