[dragonsh]

> I'm not sure that's true

I am sure its true, given Kubernetes, Docker and related projects, CockroachDB, prometheus, influxdb, nomad, otto, consul, grafana, terraform, snap, juju, Caddy, SeaweedFS, minio, milvus, syncthing, cilium are some of the examples in Go. Indeed it will be safe to say Go is one of the prominent language like Java, Python, C, C++ powering the internet. Rust still has a mountain to cross to reach even half as much usage as Go, except TiKV, Rust itself and Servo I don't see large open source software in Rust yet.

There is a lot of talk about it on HN and may be given 20-30 years it might become more widespread. Rust is still recovering from its failure of Servo not being used by Mozilla, given it failed to live up to expectations of replacing C++ in Firefox due to performance issues and resolving them within time constraints of project budget.