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> What is the most profitable piece of Rust software or the piece of Rust software that the most people depend on?

You've got:

* Every page load of Firefox

* Every page served of Reddit

* Every byte stored in dropbox

* Every user of 1password's browser extension, and every user of their Windows client.

* Every HTTP/3 request served through Cloudflare (okay HTTP/3 is still a baby but, the future here)

* Every DNS request of every user of the 1.1.1.1 mobile app (hundreds of thousands of installs)

* Every invocation of AWS Lambda and Fargate

* 4% of Debian packages

* Every control-F in Visual Studio: Code

* Every time a user list changes in Discord, also other things.

... so, yeah. Take your pick.




Interesting. I thought that only find in project (ctrl shift f) was using ripgrep, but I kind of thought that find in current file (ctrl f) was done differently.

Find in project is really awesome in VSCode.


I thought they both did, but I'm also not an expert on Code's internals.


AIUI, VS Code uses Node's regex engine for searching in the current file. But I am also not knowledgeable about Code's internals. :-)


I'll pick using an example from Discord as being a rotten apple in the list. The less this malware is mentioned the better.


I don't think Discord is malware, but we have straight-up 100% malware too! :p https://news.drweb.com/show/?i=10193&lng=en


To be fair the cancerous part of it is the Electron JS frontend, which is not to my knowledge at all implemented in Rust.




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