DHH, the creator of the Ruby on Rails framework, decided to rewrite Campfire Once from Ruby on Rails to Rust. Or rather ask a clanker to do it for him, as he can't stand reading or writing the Rust code himself. After that he added rewrites in other languages, like Elixir and Go.…
Visit itsallaboutthebit.com → RSS feedOn Hacker News Jun 2022 – Oct 2026
Software Engineering 4Programming Languages 2Security & Privacy 1Life, Learning & Writing 1
When seeing the title of this post, I bet in some people's minds, the first thought was "Rust devs!". This connection is not unfounded. Rust devs tend to be passionate about memory safety. Some of it, I'm sure, may have been caused by a classic language wars attitude: my language is better than yours, and here is why…