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It's curious not to see any JVM language there. Scala isn't even mentioned. Probably the data size is so high that the only way to survive there is to write everything in low level C++ or Rust.
I'm very surprised that C++ is one of the recommended languages for backend services. I occasionally am interested in learning C++ but with my context as a web developer I find it doesn't really fit any of my use cases. How would one go about building a rest service in C++? Do you have to write everything yourself or are there libraries and frameworks. I did some light looking into it after reading the article but I…
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> I’ve been holding off learning Rust. Rust is quite an easy language to learn and a pleasurable language to use, due to its modern ergonomics and internal consistency. Give it a try. The only trick is that Rust newcomers actually need to read up on Rust borrow checker and lifetime annotations first, as opposed to learning Rust only through hacking with it. Those two concepts are unique to Rust and need to be well un…
> Rust is quite an easy language to learn ... [except for these two incredibly complex topics that permeate the entire language] For anyone coming from a GC language, Rust is a huge change.
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> I’ve been holding off learning Rust. Rust is quite an easy language to learn and a pleasurable language to use, due to its modern ergonomics and internal consistency. Give it a try. The only trick is that Rust newcomers actually need to read up on Rust borrow checker and lifetime annotations first, as opposed to learning Rust only through hacking with it. Those two concepts are unique to Rust and need to be well un…
> Rust is quite an easy language to learn ... [except for these two incredibly complex topics that permeate the entire language] For anyone coming from a GC language, Rust is a huge change.
I remember interviewing there in 2009 and I stopped counting the number of languages I was told were being used on the SRO / backend side. I'm sure it wasn't, but it seemed like it was basically "everything" :-)
Most big companies use "everything" in some capacity, which is why "X uses Y" type statements are meaningless. The question is what's primary, what's supported, what's common in practice.
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I don't think Rust is easy to learn, it's has a kind of famously steep learning curve. The tooling is great which helps, but it's not easy for new-ish systems programmers.
Well, you will probably think I'm crazy, but for me personally, having a couple of decades of C++ experience, learning Rust turned out to be much easier than learning... Swift. Yes, that famed, ultra-modern, great-as-your-first-programming-language Swift. Except for lifetime annotations and the borrow checker, Rust turned out to be much easier for my brain to parse and memorize than Swift, perhaps due to Rust's consi…
Talking about which object "owns" another that a pointer "outlives" what it points to are totally normal parlance for C++ developers and completely foreign to a lot of other folks.
While this is cool to see "how the big guys do it", this article is worthless. Specifically, it lacks one fundamental thing: why. Why isn't Go in this list? It is very surprising since it feels like all off tech jumped on the Go bandwagon, though I won't complain. I can only guess at why, but it would be very interesting to see why. Why is Rust in the list, other than "so many people started to use it internally that…
I work at Meta and I use tools written in bash, C, Java, Go, TypeScript, Kotlin and Dart daily. I've definitely noticed that some C++ tools are moving to Rust. I would have preferred to see D in its place, but it is what it is. Personally I'm not a fan of Rust, but it is interesting to see how the language is growing as it hits mainstream. Lots of similarities with Go back when it was cool and hip.
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Instagram changed their algo to prioritize video content over images though. I think it is a mistake.
My wife's feed mainly shows images as that's mostly what her followers post. People's habits have been switching to use videos (the bubbles) as they disappear. They are using it like SnapChat. It's not the algo that changed. Your feed is just what your followers have recently posted. When you go to a profile the bubbles (videos) are at the top and the images / perm videos are in their gallery.