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rust-web3
Ethereum JSON-RPC multi-transport client. Rust implementation of web3 library. ENS address: rust-web3.eth
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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.
For me, Rust is not about the language, but what you can do with it. One of its coolest applications at the time I started Rust was in blockchain development. Most blockchain clients were written in C, C++, or Go. But Rust was new and used for mainstream blockchain development, so I felt this was the best combination. It was also around that time I started contributing to Rust-based open source projects. I had read and studied a lot of Rust code in 2017, but 2018 was my time writing the actual code. I was exploring the blockchain with Rust and was trying to build a payment system. Its idea was basically what Lazerpay does now, I called it Paysquare back then. The platform was built on Ethereum to collect Ethereum payments. To achieve this, a library called Web3 built by the developers at Ethereum existed. The only problem was that it was only written in Javascript. One of the engineers at Parity, where I later worked, who I would later get to know was pretty big in Blockchain and Rust had a Rust implementation on his Github, but it was unmaintained. Because of what I was building, I had to take over the project and contribute to it, along with other open-source Rust projects. During that period, my portfolio grew quite a bit. I contributed to a lot of open-source projects. Anyway, Paysquare didn’t work out, I think I lost motivation while building it.