Comment by echelon
1 day ago
You can advocate for using Rust at work.
If you're writing microservices, the Rust ecosystem sells itself at this point.
1 day ago
You can advocate for using Rust at work.
If you're writing microservices, the Rust ecosystem sells itself at this point.
What Rust has over other languages that makes it better for writing microservices?
API-first or API-only backends are a sweet spot for today's Rust, IMO, and its resource footprint, reduced maintenance long-tail, and performance properties are all super competitive. It's especially hard to find another language that can compete with Rust on all three of those at once.
>reduced maintenance long-tail
I'd like to hear more about that. I'm also curious what makes Rust particularly suited to "API-first" backends. My understanding of the language is that it's concurrency primitives are excellent but difficult to learn and it's gc-less runtime.
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