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by steelegbr 619 days ago
Indeed. The few times I've encountered Rust in the wild it's been for a project that didn't need it (web or IO bound applications) and someone's "My First Rust Project". It's difficult or even at times beyond the budget of smaller organisations to then hire a seasoned Rust dev to unpick whatever mess you got in to.

Don't get me wrong, Rust has a niche where it's the right choice. But being a popular language of the day, it's getting used a lot in the wrong places.
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6r17 619 days ago
Project that does not need rust "Web, or IO" -> What would you actually choose to make an API then ? Python ? Ruby ? Did you compare benchmarks from rust server to python servers ? Did you actually feel the difference ?
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wmil 619 days ago
Most web servers aren't doing anything computationally complex and there's a lot of tech to help you scale to multiple servers, so single server performance usually isn't really critical.

Web stuff is about developer speed. So familiarity, libraries, and tooling. There are plenty of good options.

Anything that needs to be performant can go in it's own service.

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smolder 618 days ago
I will say that a rust service, even when doing relatively simple stuff, can scale well in the cloud due to small memory footprint, fast startup time when auto-scaling in containers, and no need for a JIT to "warm up" before it has high throughout and consistent low latency. Building something with these qualities on a framework like Rocket is pretty straightforward, IME.
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6r17 618 days ago
Building a web app with rocket is like using a fine BMW to go on highway. It just feels right- I love Guards and what not he added in his framework ; absolutely refreshing work !
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6r17 618 days ago
Have you heard of something called climate change ?
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01HNNWZ0MV43FF 618 days ago
I agree in principle, but it's not something for individual charity to solve. The cost of pollution should be factored into energy prices with a tax.

Then everyone will know, numerically, whether Python is worth it. Maybe it is!

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hu3 618 days ago
> What would you actually choose to make an API then ? Python ? Ruby ?

Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, C#, Java, TypeScript, Elixir.

Performance benchmarks when writing APIs as 1st concern? Really? 99% of the cases this should be the last criteria.

Monthly reminder that a good part of instagram still runs on Django/Python.

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