Hasnain says:

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This is a white paper written by the folks at npm on their experience porting one of their backend micro services to Rust. It’s an interesting study because they handle the “the rewrite caused all the improvements” factor by rewriting it in 3 languages and comparing the results.

The main takeaway for me was that the Rust version took longer to write but worked out of the box in production; while with the JS version they were prepared to and had to spend quite a while post launch finding issues.

I wish it had more technical details, to be honest.

Posted on 2019-03-03T17:39:22+0000