Why Go Was the Right Choice for CockroachDB (2015)

I would be interesting to do a comparison of bugs found / fixed in CDB vs TiKV [1] (written in Rust) to see how much of an impact thread & memory safety have.

[1] https://github.com/tikv/tikv

Re: Why Go Was the Right Choice for CockroachDB (2015)

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Post by tracker1 » Mon, Feb 03, 2020, 9:10 PM UTC

ansible wrote: post #5

I would be interesting to do a comparison of bugs found / fixed in CDB vs TiKV [1] (written in Rust) to see how much of an impact thread & memory safety have. [1] https://github.com/tikv/tikv

Thanks.. now I have another rabbit hole to dig into... ;-)

Re: Why Go Was the Right Choice for CockroachDB (2015)

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Post by rkwasny » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 10:25 AM UTC

Coming up next - why Go was a wrong choice and Rust is the right one