The history of Rust at Meta goes all the way back to 2016, when we first started using it for source control. Today, it has been widely embraced at Meta and is one of our primary supported server-side languages (along with C++, Python, and Hack).
But that doesn’t mean there weren’t any growing pains.
Aida G., a member of one of Meta’s first Rust teams, joins Pascal Hartig (@passy) on the latest Meta Tech Podcast to dive into the challenges of getting Rust to interact with Meta’s large amount of existing C++ code.
Fortunately, the release of cxx, safe interop between C++, and even async Rust have made things a lot easier.
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