Original author here. Cool to see it posted again.
We're still using and investing in rust at Discord. For example, in the past year we successfully pulled part of the core messaging system out of python and into a rust service. Rust has been a boon for developer productivity and correctness of code.
We've also been very happy with the way the rust ecosystem is evolving and the amount of adoption the language has seen.
I'm happy to answer questions here.
P.S. We're still growing and hiring (including remotely). You can find my email in my profile.
Something I rarely see asked would be: what's the maintenance story with rust?
Do you have metrics about the number of bugs compared to other languages, e.g. go, python?
When you have to add a new feature to an existing rust system, is it easier/harder/the same than with another language?
How easy is it to read old rust code? Obviously, you won't have 10 year old rust codebases, but even reading something I wrote a year ago can be difficult in, e.g. C++.
Elixir is without a doubt still one of the core languages. We try to use the right tool for the job and Elixir is the right tool for parts of our system.
Interesting. We are researching Elixir for an online transaction ledger (thousands of payments per second) along with kafka. So far thats the technology that seems more suitable. That discord article was really appreciated to understand some of the intricacies of using Elixir.
I'm really glad this blog post is being discussed on HN. I've learned a lot. But there are also a few foolishly critical comments. You and jhgg should keep in mind: Illegitimi non carborundum.
We're still using and investing in rust at Discord. For example, in the past year we successfully pulled part of the core messaging system out of python and into a rust service. Rust has been a boon for developer productivity and correctness of code.
We've also been very happy with the way the rust ecosystem is evolving and the amount of adoption the language has seen.
I'm happy to answer questions here.
P.S. We're still growing and hiring (including remotely). You can find my email in my profile.