Ditto for me. I had gotten so used to building web backends in Ruby and running at 700MB minimum. When I finally got around to writing a rust backend, it registered in the metrics as 0MB, so I thought for sure the application had crashed.
replyTurns out the metrics just rounded to the nearest 5MB
> but in the end it was deemed a waste of time when the whole project was terminated.
replyThe main lesson of the story. Just pick Python and move fast, kids. It doesn’t matter how fast your software is if nobody uses it.
You can use Go and get the best of both worlds.
replyThis is it. Getting something on the table for stakeholders to look at trumps anything else.
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replyAnd this is why pretty much all commercial software is terrible and runs slower than the equivalent 20 years ago despite incredible advance in hardware.
replyAnother anecdote, the team couldn’t improve concurrency reliably in Python, they rewrote the service in about a month (ten years ago) in Go, everything ran about 20x faster.
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