Me too. I wrote one of the more popular script packs for AutoRune. Looking back AutoRune had a pretty cool event based language. I was a noobie to programming so I didn't really understand at the time.
I applied the other month for a job that mentioned SFO or remote, then halfway through the signup it stated that they were allowing folks to work remote until COVID was better, then wanted folks to be onsite, and then prompted for a yes/no if I was willing to move to SFO at a later date. Didn't get a chance to talk to anyone and expect it was because of this, so is a bit disappointing.
Ah yeah, just tested it and it says "IF APPLICABLE, WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO RELOCATE TO DISCORD'S SF HQ? WHILE DISCORD IS EMBRACING A HYBRID REMOTE APPROACH GOING FORWARD, SOME ROLES WILL REMAIN HQ-BASED."
It is not applicable for that role. It is not applicable for most (maybe all) engineering roles.
We've moved quite a few datasets from Cassandra to Scylla, but not messages. I think we're planning to make a blog post about our experience with Scylla at some point.
Kind of weird that California is tied for 3rd on the list but they make it a point to say people are "fleeing" California before mentioning the other top 3.
People have been leaving Illinois and New York for several years now, so it's probably less surprising than California's more recent stagnation and potential decline.
For the most part, in any statistic involving "Total number of people doing X" California is likely to be first.
I don't see hard numbers anywhere, but assuming that the total migration numbers are within spitting distance of proportional to the population, California would also be, if not leading the list, close to the top in terms of total people entering the state as well.
I agree, that is my assumption about why most people talk about the California migration. They are most likely to personally know someone who has migrated out of California(no tech people). I am from Ohio and can think of 5 people off-hand who left California and live here now. I can't think of another state with more than 2 people exiting. Maybe I am biased because of what I read online.
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.
Hi, are you / will you be hiring for Full-time Software Development Internships or Co-ops? I'm a grad student at Northeastern University Boston and will be graduating in May 2021, and I'm looking for Summer/Fall internships at the moment.
Thanks!
Also worth noting: Most requests to the service have to update many Read States. For instance, when you @everyone in the Minecraft server we have to update over 500,000 Read States.
