[jbotdev]

Seems ironic that you’d use rust to “build fast”. My impression is that Rust is more about building things safe/correct and efficient, with developer productivity being lower relative to other modern languages.

That said, the “infrastructure-from-code” idea is interesting. I’m not a big fan of coupling your code to your infra, but I’m intrigued by the idea of inferring infra dependencies from existing application code.

[earthling8118]

My productivity in rust is so much higher because of the help I get on correctness. It's not even remotely a competition.

[dralley]

> Seems ironic that you’d use rust to “build fast”. My impression is that Rust is more about building things safe/correct and efficient, with developer productivity being lower relative to other modern languages.

I have to admit that I have limited experience working deeply with Rust, but I've found thus far that my relative productivity is inversely proportional to the size of the project. That is, for large projects, Rust is much more productive than other languages. For small ones, less productive.

[satvikpendem]

The type system makes development much faster than with a language that doesn't have a strong type system.

[dohman]

You got that right. What Shuttle is trying to do, among other things, is to extract the difficulties of getting started, especially in a language like Rust, so that you can focus on writing good code and moving fast (when moving fast is a requirement).

[FranGro78]

If you find the “infrastructure from code” idea intriguing, then maybe take a look at https://www.winglang.io

It’s a new startup by an ex-engineer on the AWS CDK team.

[notnmeyer]

this is wild