Using Rust at a Startup: A Cautionary Tale

• go

  2,096 120,502 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

> what's missing from Go that makes that impossible?

The language maintainers don't want to add it: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19412

• atlas

  68 5,220 9.8 Go

  Manage your database schema as code (by ariga)

  

I haven't tried this, but I think you can get fairly close by generating the HTTP/SQL serialization code. When I get time I want to write an openapi schema amd generate the server code, write a db schema and generate the db code (I want to try https://github.com/ariga/atlas with Ent for this), then write the business logic between them and see how well it all works

• InfluxDB

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• too-many-lists

  219 3,058 0.0 Rust

  Learn Rust by writing Entirely Too Many linked lists

  

I agree mostly with this, however, ownership can be strange in Rust if you’re not familiar with it. Something seemingly simple like a linked list can be challenging to implement.

https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/

• rust-magic-function-params

  10 497 10.0 Rust

  Discontinued Magical Rust patterns laid out and simplified [Moved to: https://github.com/alexpusch/rust-magic-patterns]

I've written a few backend APIs with rust and I have to disagree. Not only have the frameworks managed to get the ergonomics similar to your popular GC lang[0][1], the natural lack of shared mutable state of HTTP handlers means you very rarely have to encounter lifetimes and a lot of the language's advanced features. What's more, now when I go back to work with other languages, I can't help but notice the significant number of unit tests I'd not have had to write in Rust. It doesn't have a Rails and Django but it's an easy pick over anything at the language level.

A note on performance, Rust's the only langauge where I haven't had the need to update my unit test harnesses to `TRUNCATE` data base data instead of creating a separate db per test on PostgresSQL.

I'll also like to mention the gem that is SQLx[1]. As someone who's never been satisfied with ORMs, type checked SQL queries that auto-populate your custom types is revolutionary. With the error-prone langauge-SQL boundary covered, I was surprised just how good it can get making use of the builtin PostgreSQL features. Almost to the point that amount of effort the community's put to building great tools like Prisma.js and feel like a fool's errand (at least so for PosgreSQL).

[0]: https://github.com/alexpusch/rust-magic-function-params

[1]: https://github.com/juhaku/utoipa

[3]: lib.rs/crates/sqlx

• utoipa

  15 1,948 8.8 Rust

  Simple, Fast, Code first and Compile time generated OpenAPI documentation for Rust

I've written a few backend APIs with rust and I have to disagree. Not only have the frameworks managed to get the ergonomics similar to your popular GC lang[0][1], the natural lack of shared mutable state of HTTP handlers means you very rarely have to encounter lifetimes and a lot of the language's advanced features. What's more, now when I go back to work with other languages, I can't help but notice the significant number of unit tests I'd not have had to write in Rust. It doesn't have a Rails and Django but it's an easy pick over anything at the language level.

A note on performance, Rust's the only langauge where I haven't had the need to update my unit test harnesses to `TRUNCATE` data base data instead of creating a separate db per test on PostgresSQL.

I'll also like to mention the gem that is SQLx[1]. As someone who's never been satisfied with ORMs, type checked SQL queries that auto-populate your custom types is revolutionary. With the error-prone langauge-SQL boundary covered, I was surprised just how good it can get making use of the builtin PostgreSQL features. Almost to the point that amount of effort the community's put to building great tools like Prisma.js and feel like a fool's errand (at least so for PosgreSQL).

[0]: https://github.com/alexpusch/rust-magic-function-params

[1]: https://github.com/juhaku/utoipa

[3]: lib.rs/crates/sqlx

• rust

  2,691 94,153 10.0 Rust

  Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

  

It is a little more complex than that these days

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/4e0d0d757e2f1b61ec809...

• modelbox

  1 12 1.3 Rust

  An extensible machine learning model store and model transformation and distribution service

  

I am building modelbox right now - https://github.com/tensorland/modelbox I began building this in Rust while also learning the language. It became quickly very complex as I started introducing streams in async traits. I think in a few years things will get a lot better as more people use Rust for building web services, but I had to go back to Go to be more productive and ship this thing out. I loved how the compiler was forcing me to think harder about life times and such.

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• dark

  43 1,620 9.9 F#

  Darklang main repo, including language, backend, and infra

  

Some languages that try to integrate an HTTP server and a database:

Ur/Web: http://impredicative.com/ur/

Dark (Darklang): https://darklang.com/

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