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by serverholic 1229 days ago
I’ve found that there are a confluence of factors that make “built in rust” important to me.

First of all, Rust is relatively new so this tells me that the codebase is likely new.

Secondly, I think rust tends to attract smart people who like programs to be small and fast. Case-in-point meilisearch is a simple, single binary download.

Both of these together indicate that a project has a higher chance of being freshly written code, by smart people, that is small and fast.

Before I get a bunch of we’ll actually’s, I’m not saying these things are true 100% of the time.