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cybrexalpha | 8 months ago

That also jumped out to me as pretty weird. Buildkit as a library is nice, but there's no way it's good enough to justify throwing out the entire project. It feels like there was some big change internally, and the new team either wanted to rewrite and didn't know Rust, or ideologically prefer Go to Rust.

Edit: Although looking at it, maybe not?

Both the new project railpack[0] and the older one nixpacks[1] are both started by and mostly written by the same person[2], who is also the author of the article in question. So it doesn't look like a team change.

It still feels... odd? Less that they made the change, projects go from Rust to Go all the time. But usually it's because of issues with Rust (hard to hire for, learning curve, etc.), describing it like this feels unusual?

[0] https://github.com/railwayapp/railpack

[1] https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks

[2] https://github.com/coffee-cup

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