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0 pointsdanudey4y ago0 comments

> I coded exclusively in Rust

This reminds me of back in 2003, a friend of mine worked for an online casino vendor; basically, if you wanted to run an online casino, you'd buy the software from a company and customize it to fit your theme.

They were often written in Java, ASP.NET, and so on. They were extremely heavyweight. They'd need 8-10 servers for 10k users. They hogged huge amounts of RAM.

My friend wrote the one this company was selling in C. Not even C++, mind you, just C. The game modules were chosen at compile time, so unwanted games didn't exist. The entire binary (as in, 100% of the code) compiled to just over 3 MB when stripped. He could handle 10k concurrent users on one single-core server.

I'm never gonna stop writing things in Python, but it still amazes me what can happen when you get down close to the metal.

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Karrot_Kream4y ago

OpenResty [1] is a good mix of these concepts. It serves requests through nginx (which is at its core just a lightweight event loop) and then serves pages through LuaJIT. If you need more speed you could always write an nginx module in C (or in some other language viz the C ABI).

[1]: https://openresty.org/en/

Gepsens4y ago

Yeah currently for me there's no tool like Rust for performance, the borrow-checker isn't that complicated. However, last month I started adding a python wrapper around the public api so I'm slowly going your way ;)

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