spring-kafka VS Rustler

Compare spring-kafka vs Rustler and see what are their differences.

spring-kafka

Provides Familiar Spring Abstractions for Apache Kafka (by spring-projects)

Rustler

Safe Rust bridge for creating Erlang NIF functions (by rusterlium)
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spring-kafka Rustler
1 35
2,048 4,130
2.1% 2.3%
9.6 8.6
7 days ago 1 day ago
Java Rust
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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spring-kafka

Posts with mentions or reviews of spring-kafka. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-22.
  • Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jun 2022
    Yes. Several parts to it.

    1) My experience is greater. Many of the problems that I encountered before, I know how to solve.

    2) I know what knowledge I'm looking for if I don't know the answer. Instead of searching for the problem I am having (and ending up on SO), I am searching for the specific part of the documentation that I need for solving the problem that I have.

    3) I tend to bias to project specific knowledge now. The general pollution of search on Stack Overflow means that it is more productive to search Spring documentation or the project specific forums ( https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/discussions ) rather than Stack Overflow itself.

    4) Stack Overflow content is having difficulty with the lack of curation of old answers and the deceased quality of people answering now. Finding an answer written in recent times with a few variations on "have you tried {x}?" without the material leading to how that suggestion was derived means that trying to apply the answer is shotgun "maybe this works" without an understanding for how it works or if that is the right solution.

    4b) I try to avoid the "have you tried {x}" answers as that impacts the rate I grow my experience (and thus part 1) at. Likewise, in general, people who try the shotgun solutions (and I can see that in code reviews if they're not good about cleaning up (and they aren't) tend to continue to make the same type of errors again as they are following cookbook / paint by numbers approaches rather than understanding some basic food science or aesthetic theory.

Rustler

Posts with mentions or reviews of Rustler. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-09.
  • AI Toolkit: Give a brain to your game's NPCs, a header-only C++ library
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2024
    For performance intensive tasks, you could rely on Rust NIFs, there is this great project: https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

    My last project with Elixir was using Elixir merely as an orchestrator of static binaries (developed in golang) which were talking in JSON via stdin/stdout.

  • Building Apps with Tauri and Elixir
    14 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2023
    From the moment we discovered Tauri, we really felt like this was the perfect fit. The API is really solid, the configuration files are minimal and easy to understand, and the usage of Rust makes it way easier to add new functionalities and think about interesting ways of interoperating with Elixir via the Rustler library.
  • Async Rust Is A Bad Language
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2023
    Elixir/Rust is the new Python/C++, and Rustler makes the communicating between the 2 languages super easy: https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler
  • Why elixir over Golang
    10 projects | /r/elixir | 29 May 2023
    Rustler is so awesome for this. Write Elixir NIFs in Rust? Yes, please!
  • Is RUST a good choice for building web browsers?
    6 projects | /r/rust | 27 May 2023
  • Why do you enjoy systems programming languages?
    2 projects | /r/rust | 25 May 2023
    But really, I would suggest thinking about what you want to build before "how" or "with which tool" - one of the signs of a person becoming a good engineer is having an array of tools at their disposal and being able to choose a correct tool for the correct task. Rust also excels in integrating with other languages - with JS via WebAssembly (a bit of self-promotion, for example), with Elixir via Rustler, with Python via PyO3 and PyOxidizer, etc. So you absolutely can start writing a frontend app with JS, or a distributed system with Elixir, or a data processing/ML app with Python and use Rust to speed up critical parts of those. Or, in reverse, you can start with Rust & add new capabilities to whatever you're building, that being a frontend, a resilient chat interface, or an ML model.
  • PasswordRs 0.1.0 released (Rust NIF for password hashing)
    4 projects | /r/elixir | 24 Apr 2023
    I created a elixir (wrapper) library to generate password hashes. Other Elixir libraries use a C NIF to generate password hashes. This libary uses a Rust NIF (using Rustler) and the Rust libraries the generate the different hashes. Additionally this library uses RustlerPrecompiled so you don't need to have a Rust compiler installed to use this library. It supports argon2, scrypt, brypt and pbkdf2.
  • Elixir and Rust is a good mix
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2023
    > I guess, why not use Rust entirely instead of as a FFI into Elixir or other backend language?

    Because Rust brings none of the benefits of the BEAM ecosystem to the table.

    I was an early Elixir adopter, not working currently as an Elixir developer, but I have deployed one of the largest Elixir applications for a private company in my country.

    I know it has limits, but the language itself is only a small part of the whole.

    Take ML, Jose Valim and Sean Moriarity have studied the problem, made a plan to tackle it and started solving it piece by piece [1] in a tightly integrated manner, it feels natural, as if Elixir always had those capabilities in a way that no other language does and to put the icing on the cake the community released Livebook [2] to interactively explore code and use the new tools in the simplest way possible, something that Python notebooks only dream of being capable of, after a decade of progress

    That's not to say that Elixir is superior as a language, but that the ecosystem is flourishing and the community is able to extract the 100% of the benefits from the tools and create new marvellously crafted ones, that push the limits forward every time, in such a simple manner, that it looks like magic.

    And going back to Rust, you can write Rust if you need speed or for whatever reason you feel it's the right tool for the job, it's totally integrated [3][4], again in a way that many other languages can only dream of, and it's in fact the reason I've learned Rust in the first place.

    The opposite is not true, if you write Rust, you write Rust, and that's it. You can't take advantage of the many features the BEAM offers, OTP, hot code reloading, full inspection of running systems, distribution, scalability, fault tolerance, soft real time etc. etc. etc.

    But of course if you don't see any advantage in them, it means you probably don't need them (one other option is that you still don't know you want them :] ). In that case Rust is as good as any other language, but for a backend, even though I gently despise it, Java (or Kotlin) might be a better option.

    [1] https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx https://github.com/elixir-nx/axon

    [2] https://livebook.dev/

    [3] https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

    [4] https://dashbit.co/blog/rustler-precompiled

  • It's legos all the way down
    3 projects | dev.to | 17 Feb 2023
    unfortunately as of the time of this writing, rustler does not support generic type intefaces so I guess this is impossible?
  • When Rust Hurts
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2023
    One thing that drew me to Rust was actually Elixir/Erlang calling out to it for certain specialized needs. Within Elixir/Erlang you get best of breed concurrency but exiting the BEAM to run other code is unsafe. Calling out to Rust, however, comes with great safety guarantees.

    Managing concurrency outside of Rust and then calling Rust for the more focused and specialized work is a good combination IMO.

    https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

What are some alternatives?

When comparing spring-kafka and Rustler you can also consider the following projects:

gleam - ⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!

hsnif - Tool that allows to write Erlang NIF libraries in Haskell

carbon-lang - Carbon Language's main repository: documents, design, implementation, and related tools. (NOTE: Carbon Language is experimental; see README)

nifty - helpful tools for when I need to create an Elixir NIF .

Akka - Build highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM

elixir-nodejs - An Elixir API for calling Node.js functions

dplyr - dplyr: A grammar of data manipulation

crate-deps

rst - The open source design documentation tool for everybody [Moved to: https://github.com/vitiral/artifact]

actix-web - Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

duckdb-rs - Ergonomic bindings to duckdb for Rust

Clippy - A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/