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pimeys on May 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Four Years of Rust

We've been rewriting a big Scala code base to Rust now since January and the team is advancing in a nice pace.

Our plan was:

- Take one part of the system to rewrite over JNA

- Run a massive amount of Scala tests against the new code

- When green, take another part

- Meanwhile the other part of the team writes the user-facing code base, connecting it to the new Rust crates

- The test suit works also over an integration layer, so the other team can test their code and the backend with the same test suite

We're quite far already. Originally I was the only person with Rust experience. Now there's five of us.

hopscotch on May 16, 2019 [–]

Why are you migrating from Scala?

pimeys on May 16, 2019 | [–]

The company wants much lower resource usage per node and easy integration with other languages.

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