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This is a follow-up of the 2021 post: https://blog.kraken.com/product/engineering/oxidizing-kraken... We originally introduced Rust (back in 2018) as a small experiment alongside e…

If by excessive typing you mean complex trait bounds and the like, it's really something isolated to the most generic libraries, and reasonably rare. Most application code is simpl…

With hindsight, considering the cards we were dealt, there's not much I would have done differently. If I had known better before, I would have ensured stronger buy-in because afte…

Completed a full rewrite of many components of the Kraken.com backend in about 4 years. The new system is around 1.5M loc of Rust. There was no serious alternative to rewriting, so…

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We're using thiserror, and haven't explored macros that generate an enum from the Result type. I remember there are crates exploring this, but this is something that would really b…

Author of the post here - feel free to shoot any questions. Also see thread on r/rust: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/lnkx9h/oxidizing_krak...

I disagree with Stallman's skepticism (I do think it harms children and I don't think children can make that choice). But that one liner does not make him a pedophilia advocate. Th…

It's a 3 person side-project over 3 months. I suppose he means that Rust is to thank for this level of polish and reuse of 3rd party libraries. My experience with Rust is similar a…

Kudos! When Rust 1.0 was announced I had a look. I was very surprised because that language was very different from my previous look, when Rust still had GC and green threads (and …

Interesting post that show some current limitations of Rust, especially when not being able to control the design entirely. Rust's ownership system makes it harder to deal with the…

Thank you for your kind words, and kudos to you for finding that buried submission ;-)