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- Concurrency125
- Functional114
- Erlang vm102
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- Fun to write300
- Goroutines144
Why do developers choose Rust?
- Fast72
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Thumbtack
One important decision for delivering a platform independent solution with low memory footprint and minimal dependencies was the choice of the programming language. We considered a few from Python (there was already a reasonably large Python code base at Thumbtack), to Go (we were taking our first steps with it), and even Rust (too immature at the time).
We ended up writing it in C. It was easy to meet all requirements with only one external dependency for implementing the web server, clearly no challenges running it on any of the Linux distributions we were maintaining, and arguably the implementation with the smallest memory footprint given the choices above.
Go is a high performance language with simple syntax / semantics. Although it is not as expressive as some other languages, it's still a great language for backend development.
Python is expressive and battery-included, and pre-installed in most linux distros, making it a great language for scripting.
PostgreSQL: Rock-solid RDBMS with NoSQL support.
TypeScript saves you from all nonsense semantics of JavaScript , LOL.
NATS: fast message queue and easy to deploy / maintain.
Docker makes deployment painless.
Git essential tool for collaboration and source management.
Our new backend micro services are primarily written in Node.js and Go and legacy systems are written in Java. For our new stack decision, we aimed to achieve greater developer productivity, low IO latency and good community so we had couple of technologies in hand to choose but finally we concluded to go for Node.js for API layer and Go for CPU/IO intensive tasks. Currently the inter-services communication is happening via REST but soon to be moved to RPC-based communication.
Elixiri've give a try to Ruby, Crystal, Python and GO, and yeah, for web development i use Elixir-Phoenix, because idk why just amazing, my phoenix app is very stable (comparing to api that written in other language), Ruby is slow, Crystal has unstable API, GO, umm yeah, you need too complicated (i use golang for microservice)
GoGo has been a joy to work with. Performance is often 30x of what we used to see with Python. It's a performant and productive programming language: https://getstream.io/blog/switched-python-go/
GoThe first time I actually started using Go was for software on our devices. So on our hotspots we have some custom software running in the firmware. For the first device, that was actually completely built by our manufacturer. But for the second generation most of the parts are built by us in-house and we needed a way to quickly develop software for the device. But we don't have any C programmers in-house, so we were actually looking for something that basically sits in between the friendliness of Ruby, but the performance and the ability to be deployed on an embedded system which you get with C. That's basically what led us to Go and it's been awesome for that. It works so well and so great. Since it works so great, it pushed us into looking into whether we should start using this for some backend services as well.
GoThe following basic API endpoints are implemented on the server written in Go:
- Authorization (Sign Up, Sign In)
- Update user profile
- Community: add post, like post, add comment, delete post, add reply to comment
- Self-diagnosis: send data from the app to the server
- Journal: send user data from the app to the server
- Add groups of community
- Report post, report comment, report reply
- Block user
GoWe wrote our own image processing, resizing, and snapshotting service in Go to allow our clients to send photos and GIFs to each other. Files are stored in S3, resized on the fly using OpenCV, and then cached in GroupCache before being served to clients.
Go allows it all to be quite fast and efficient, and entirely non-blocking on uploads!
GoOur main web scraping engine is built usign Golang because of the way how efficiently and fast this language is. Also out compilation facility let people who dont know Golang build fast as flash scrapers to run ourside of our platform without any knowledge in programming in Golang.
GoFor some of our more taxing parts of our applications, something able to handle high I/O load quickly and with fast processing is needed. Go has completely filled that gap, allowing us to break down walls that would've been completely impossible with other languages.
RustRust is used in Shirogane (https://github.com/Marc3842h/shirogane).
Shirogane is a osu! beatmap mirror built for shiro. We use Rust because of memory safe but still low level and high performance.
ElixirHuge boon to productivity when coupled with Phoenix. Moreover, it has made background jobs and all the unseen aspects of a business easily abstracted.
ElixirKnowledge collection, collation, and enrichment. Business logic.
ElixirFor some internal tools like our email deliverability monitor
Elixirlanguage used by phoenix framework
ElixirElixir and Phoenix are awesome.