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22 November 2025

  • curprev 05:1905:19, 22 November 2025 PC talk contribs 12,374 bytes +12,374 Created page with "Last week, someone in our engineering Slack channel suggested rewriting our order processing service in Rust. “It’ll be faster,” they said. “Memory safe,” they added. “Zero-cost abstractions.” I’ve seen this movie before. Different language, same plot. Five years ago, it was Go that would save us. Three years ago, it was microservices. Now it’s Rust. 500px Here’s what I’ve learned from watching rewrites: the lan..."