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Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust

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Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust

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Post by marban »

tmikaeld wrote: post #20

My team tried to use Meilisearch for large datasets, unfortunately, it's impossible to plan the RAM usage. If you have very little searches, it consumed very little, but if you have a lot of search traffic, it may consume more than we could provision beforehand. This made it too unpredictable and too expensive, so we went with Manticore instead. I don't know if this has been addressed in 1.0, hopefully it has.

Do you have any numeric definitions for few and lots?

Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust

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Post by bsnnkv »

dividedbyzero wrote: post #18
adamnemecek wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is important. Rust projects are infinitely easier to contribute to.

Compared to what?

For me: compared to projects in languages with less mature tooling and compilers less capable of preventing entire classes of errors by default.

Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust

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Post by pdimitar »

chimen wrote: post #10

Is Rust that important that you have to place "built in Rust" in the title? Is this like a cult following that we only bet on traffic and interest coming from other evangelists where Rust is the only feature that matter? 4 months ago: " Meilisearch, open-source alternative to Algolia in Rust lands a $15M Series A" It's not the first time I see, there are at least 2-3 daily submissions reaching the FP in this manner s…

It's important, yes. If it was written in C/C++ I'll fully expect to have my servers pwned due to a memory safety bug that these (and many other) languages don't protect against.

There's a number of technical people with decision-making powers that pay attention. And a part of them prioritize Rust-written projects.

It's a sound (literally) and safe investment.

I don't get the people getting ticked off by the "written in Rust" clarification. Can we finally stop pretending that all programming languages are equal? They absolutely are not.

Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust

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Post by renewiltord »

chimen wrote: post #10

Is Rust that important that you have to place "built in Rust" in the title? Is this like a cult following that we only bet on traffic and interest coming from other evangelists where Rust is the only feature that matter? 4 months ago: " Meilisearch, open-source alternative to Algolia in Rust lands a $15M Series A" It's not the first time I see, there are at least 2-3 daily submissions reaching the FP in this manner s…

For those of us who like editing our source code, it's useful to know. And since this is HN, that's a lot of us.

Re: Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust

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Post by paraboul »

chimen wrote: post #10

Is Rust that important that you have to place "built in Rust" in the title? Is this like a cult following that we only bet on traffic and interest coming from other evangelists where Rust is the only feature that matter? 4 months ago: " Meilisearch, open-source alternative to Algolia in Rust lands a $15M Series A" It's not the first time I see, there are at least 2-3 daily submissions reaching the FP in this manner s…

For some reason "built in Rust" resonate with "unbloated" to me, which can be quite appealing for this kind of software.
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