How Turborepo is porting from Go to Rust

• Protobuf

  171 63,657 10.0 C++

  Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format

  

On optional.. this was a regression in proto that is somewhat helped by https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/docs/f... ; I have no idea whether protobuf for rust has started taking advantage of this.

JSON is awful in every way.

• go

  2,068 119,564 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

This was referenced, which I thought was interesting:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13492

golang cannot be compiled as a C static library with musl.

• InfluxDB

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• hyper

  97 13,821 9.2 Rust

  An HTTP library for Rust (by hyperium)

  

• goprotobuf

  13 9,546 2.8 Go

  Go support for Google's protocol buffers (by golang)

  

• turbo

  57 24,900 9.9 Rust

  Incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust – including Turbopack and Turborepo.

  

One detail I enjoy from this post is that sometimes you can just call a CLI[0]. It's easy to spend a lot of time figuring out how to expose some Rust/C code as a library for your language, but I like the simplicity of just compiling, shipping the binary and then calling it as a subprocess.

Yes, there's overhead in starting a new process to "just call a function", but I think this approach is still underutilized.

[0]: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/blob/c0ee0dea7388d1081512c93...

• prost

  14 3,513 8.3 Rust

  PROST! a Protocol Buffers implementation for the Rust Language

  

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