Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta

Post by MiguelX413 » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 2:52 PM UTC

Kukumber wrote: post #282

nicolashahn wrote: post #128

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Rust is far more widely used than D in the industry, so it's no surprised that it's more supported at Meta. Re: Go, it's use cases overlap with the officially supported languages, so there's no broad need for it.

Nobody uses Rust for server side, literally nobody, expect Meta apparently The industry adopted Go as the cloud native language, not rust, i suspect the people doing the recomandation are ex-mozilla, or they literally HATE Go

I do seem to recall that Skylight as a famous example of Rust on the back-end. https://www.rust-lang.org/static/pdfs/Rust-Tilde-Whitepaper....

Post by preseinger » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 12:59 AM UTC

baq wrote: post #295

preseinger wrote: post #291

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That's true, but it doesn't mean C++ is harder to learn. Rust has a broader and more novel conceptual surface area than C++. This is what influences difficulty, not memory safety guarantees.

I postulate that a lot of folks confuse ‘easier to learn’ with ‘easier to get code to compile’ and I disagree that the two are the same. Rust makes it more obvious sooner that you have soooo much to learn.

Rust presents a programmatic model to its users that is exceptionally broad. That model is not objectively more correct, or better, or whatever else, than the model presented by other languages. It provides different guarantees, and extracts different costs, and lifts different concerns into the domain of its users, compared to alternatives. Those particular costs and benefits make sense for certain use cases, and don't make sense for others.

Re: Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta

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