This is what Google uses Rust for

Manpreet Singh
3 min readAug 15, 2021

Welcome back! Rust is a very powerful programming language used by tons of different companies, including Google! Let’s go ahead and see what projects Google actually uses Rust for. Now, the process of me finding these projects was by going to their career page, looking at relevant positions and noting the relevant projects I found:

Let’s take a look at some of these projects!

ChromeOS Development

Starting off, one of the most surprising projects I saw that Google uses Rust for is for their ChromeOS development. ChromeOS is a operating system that Google developed for their Chromebook's, one of these languages for this OS is Rust! If you want to see a sample requirements guide for this project using Rust, here is a screenshot below:

Google Fuchsia Development

Another project that Google uses Rust for is for Google Fuchsia, this is an open source effort from Google for operating system development. From Google’s career page, there are 3 main languages used for this project, C / C++ and Rust. If you want to see a sample requirements guide for this project, here is a screenshot below:

Android Development