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Rust Foundation Releases Problem Statement on C++/Rust Interoperability (foundation.rust-lang.org)
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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

with a generous $1M contribution from Google

1M only? Google pays 500M (half a billion Dollar) to their rival Mozilla Firefox. Each year. I don't want to make this a Mozilla thread, just want to say they could have done more than just a million Dollar for Rust. Given that Google uses Rust as well.

[–] argon@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The money Google pays to Mozilla has a direct ROI, since more people use their search engine.

Giving money to the Rust foundation only helps Google very indirectly, by being generally benefitial to software companies.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 8 points 1 day ago

Google is using Rust more and more in Android, Chromium. So its in Googles direct interest to have a better interoperability between Rust and C++. https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/31/rust_google_c/ and https://www.techradar.com/pro/google-hails-move-to-rust-for-huge-drop-in-memory-vulnerabilities are articles talking why Google likes using Rust.