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Kerollmops | 10 months ago

Meilisearch has been production-ready since v1.0. I made it in Rust to ensure it stays production-ready for years and years. Memory-safe languages are here to replace unsafe ones like C++ and reduce the number of breaches you expose in production.

Here is an article by Google showing the benefits of using memory-safe languages in production rather than others. It is explicitly rotating around Rust [1].

[1]: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...

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sealeck|10 months ago

Writing software in Rust doesn't necessarily mean that it works reliably for real-world workloads. Sure, Rust prevents you from doing lots of stupid things; it is very much in the class of "necessary but not sufficient condition" for writing software (of course, you can also use other languages, but memory safety should be table stakes for all software these days).

arccy|10 months ago

This reply doesn't inspire confidence at all...

Made in Rust isn't a magic bullet to be production ready, and I'd be more concerned about logic bugs rather than CVEs.

1.0 is like the bare minimum to be used in production, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's been battle tested enough to be considered production ready.

Kerollmops|10 months ago

HuggingFace is using Meilisearch, in production, on their website for a year now.