Rust after the honeymoon

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2020/10/11/rust-after-the-honeymoon/ · Two years ago, I had a blog entry describing falling in love with Rust. Of course, a relationship with a technology is like any other relationship: as novelty and infatuation wears off, it can get on a longer term (and often more realistic and subdued) footing – or it can begin to fray. So well one might ask: how is Rust after the honeymoon? By way of answering that, I should note that about a year ago (and a year into my relationship with Rust) we started Oxide. On the one hand, the name was no accident – we saw Rust playing a large role in our future. But on the other, we hadn’t yet started to build in earnest, so it was really more pointed question than assertion: where might Rust fit in a stack that stretches from the bowels of firmware through a hypervisor and control plane and into the lofty heights of REST APIs?