Languages performance

Posted Dec 4, 2022 20:29 UTC (Sun) by stephen.pollei (subscriber, #125364)
In reply to: Languages performance by tialaramex
Parent article: Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 (Google security blog)

Yes, I read recently that CloudFlare is replacing many uses of nginx with something they are writing in rust.How we built Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet ; Cloudflare is moving away from NGINX | The Backend Engineering Show .

CloudFlare claims, "Having a developer friendly interface engineers are familiar with while eliminating the previous constraints allows us to develop more features, more quickly." . This is different than the other project that I referred to. They also seem to claim that it allowed them to do better multiprocessor optimizations realistically and thus be more performant in practice than other languages. It seems like there are a lot of interesting project happening with rust