<p><pre><code>  &gt; you can see C++ adopting pretty much the borrow checker as a tool
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This may be because I&#x27;m too close to it, but the Core Guidelines are similar in ways, but also very different. Preventing data races is an explicit non-goal, for example, whereas in some ways, it&#x27;s the focus of the borrow checker.<p><pre><code>  &gt; Rust has no major production deployments of which I am aware
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Dropbox is the latest production user, as of last month. And it&#x27;s serious production usage: how the bytes get stored on disk, basically the core of the whole business.