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We Didn't Pick Rust

7 points| morganerouvroy | 22 days ago |floedb.ai

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morganerouvroy|22 days ago

Hi, I’m the author.

This came from a real decision we had to make while building a new startup inside an existing company. It’s less about Rust itself and more about how those decisions actually play out.

We tried Rust in a few small places to make the trade-offs clearer. Happy to expand if useful.

jjgreen|22 days ago

On the company about page:

We work in Rust, Java/Quarkus, C, C++, LLVM and Python ...

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shutty|22 days ago

TLDR: we didn't pick rust because we're a Java shop.

morganerouvroy|22 days ago

Java was the baseline for this project, yes. The post is really about how we looked at the trade-offs, not about locking in a language choice forever.

For what it’s worth, the team isn’t Java-only either: some of us have spent a lot of time in C or C++ before, and others were already very comfortable with Java. The question here was mostly whether bringing in a new production language made sense at that stage of the project.