echelon 2 days ago

You can advocate for using Rust at work.

If you're writing microservices, the Rust ecosystem sells itself at this point.

  • foxygen a day ago

    What Rust has over other languages that makes it better for writing microservices?

    • mtndew4brkfst a day ago

      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.

      • simpaticoder a day ago

        >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.