Hasnain says:

“The degree to which these problems just aren’t a thing in other languages can’t be overstated either. In Haskell or Go, “async code” is just normal code. You might say this isn’t a fair comparison—after all, those languages hide the difference between blocking and non-blocking code behind fat runtimes, and lifetimes are handwaved with garbage collection. But that’s exactly the point! These are pure wins when we’re doing this sort of programming.

Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software. We can save it for the 99% of our projects that don’t have to be.”

Posted on 2023-09-13T20:13:55+0000