Shopify Embraces Rust for Systems Programming

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  • zig

    General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

  • Still waiting for companies to discover that Crystal, Nim (increasingly popular among Windows security people), Zig (used for Tiger Beetle), or V (still in development, but I hear people are using it) exist. It's great that Rust managed to overcome Golang's aggressive marketing and get a word in edge wise, but there are many other interesting post-C/C++ languages in addition to Go and Rust that are worth checking out.

  • v-mode

    🌻 An Emacs major mode for the V programming language.

  • Still waiting for companies to discover that Crystal, Nim (increasingly popular among Windows security people), Zig (used for Tiger Beetle), or V (still in development, but I hear people are using it) exist. It's great that Rust managed to overcome Golang's aggressive marketing and get a word in edge wise, but there are many other interesting post-C/C++ languages in addition to Go and Rust that are worth checking out.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • tigerbeetle

    The distributed financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance.

  • Still waiting for companies to discover that Crystal, Nim (increasingly popular among Windows security people), Zig (used for Tiger Beetle), or V (still in development, but I hear people are using it) exist. It's great that Rust managed to overcome Golang's aggressive marketing and get a word in edge wise, but there are many other interesting post-C/C++ languages in addition to Go and Rust that are worth checking out.

  • Nim

    Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

  • Still waiting for companies to discover that Crystal, Nim (increasingly popular among Windows security people), Zig (used for Tiger Beetle), or V (still in development, but I hear people are using it) exist. It's great that Rust managed to overcome Golang's aggressive marketing and get a word in edge wise, but there are many other interesting post-C/C++ languages in addition to Go and Rust that are worth checking out.

  • crystal

    The Crystal Programming Language

  • Still waiting for companies to discover that Crystal, Nim (increasingly popular among Windows security people), Zig (used for Tiger Beetle), or V (still in development, but I hear people are using it) exist. It's great that Rust managed to overcome Golang's aggressive marketing and get a word in edge wise, but there are many other interesting post-C/C++ languages in addition to Go and Rust that are worth checking out.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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