wick VS rust

> In Wick, we use a script to automatically update inline lint configurations for a few dozen crates.

> https://github.com/candlecorp/wick/blob/28465f8c1492e6588bd2...

Good lord, that is an INCREDIBLE number of lints to disable, and for... what? If you have to disable lints telling you about things like unused/dead code, intentional validation of the language's conventional style, unused/unnecessary allocations, useless/trivial type casts, ... then I really wonder what kind of code is actually being written.

Disclaimer: I work at this company

Candle just released the Candle Cloud (https://cloud.candle.dev) with a generous free tier. This allows for anyone who knows basic SQL to create a backend api application and host the application on the Internet. This is made possible by our framework Wick (https://github.com/candlecorp/wick)

If anyone has any questions or wants any help getting your own idea deployed, I will be watching here or you can join our Discord (https://discord.gg/candle) and we can help you there.

I can't wait to see what you can build!

Hi Everyone

We've been deep-diving into our project, Wick (https://github.com/candlecorp/wick).

The idea? Use Wick to build a low-code request enrichment HTTP proxy, and then harness that same functionality for a CLI app.

For those wary of low-code, we've got you covered. There's a dedicated section showcasing how to employ Rust to craft a WebAssembly component. This ensures you can seamlessly embed any intricate logic into the same workflow.

Keen to hear your thoughts.

Rust

It seems to be more fussy about compiler optimizations, though: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/125543

apimock-rs is one of my projects on API mock Server generating HTTP/JSON responses to help to develop microservices and APIs, written in Rust.

Rust, the language itself depends on 220 packages: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/e8753914580fb42554a79...

If you trust nobody, it is hard to use anything.

But about your second note, (environment, mismatched dependencies), I would argue that Rust provides the best tooling to solve or identify issues on that area.

rustc source code

First look is into The Unstable Book. Well, it does not look informative but gives us some background from the rust-lang Github project-const-generics. It says:

Rust has been around for several years and works well as a system and general programming language. There are many fine introductions to the language, a good place to start is here: https://www.rust-lang.org/

‍For the rest of this post I’ll list off some more tactical examples of things that you can do towards this goal. Savvy readers will note that these are not novel ideas of my own, and in fact a lot of the things on this list are popular core features in modern languages such as Kotlin, Rust, and Clojure. Kotlin, in particular, has done an amazing job of emphasizing these best practices while still being an extremely practical and approachable language.

> There are online Rust compilers and interpreters already if you just want to rapid prototype and develop ideas in Rust

You are responding to one of the key developers of Rust early on[1], who's been working with the language for 14 years at that point.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/graphs/contributors?from=2... and he's still #16 in commits overall today, despite almost no activity on the rust compiler since 2014.

If you haven't dipped your touch-typing fingers into Rust yet, you really owe it to yourself. Rust is a modern programming language with features that make it suitable not only for systems programming -- its original purpose, but just about any other environment, too; there are frameworks that let your build web services, web applications including user interfaces, software for embedded devices, machine learning solutions, and of course, command-line tools. Since a custom GitHub Action is essentially a command-line tool that interacts with the system through files and environment variables, Rust is perfectly suited for that as well.