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Re:RethinkDB is hiring C/C++ engineers with irrational desir... by krakensden on Sunday March 14, 2010 @11:12AM (#1190745)
... is your software written in both? Or you just figure if you can do one you can learn the other?
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Re:RethinkDB is hiring C/C++ engineers with irrational desir... by leif on Sunday March 14, 2010 @01:54PM (#1190977)
I won't speak for Slava, but I think generally the idea is that knowing either one well enough implies a certain amount of knowledge about computer guts, which in turn implies that it shouldn't be too hard for you to learn the other.

Technically it's in C++, though, if that helps.

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Re:RethinkDB is hiring C/C++ engineers with irrational desir... by mahmud on Sunday March 14, 2010 @05:55PM (#1191406)
Plus it's not entirely unheard of to do the core of the application in C, and offer a C++ API to users. There is a good reason to have both expertise inhouse.
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Re:RethinkDB is hiring C/C++ engineers with irrational desir... by leif on Sunday March 14, 2010 @06:26PM (#1191456)
Well, the MySQL API is C++...so....
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Re:RethinkDB is hiring C/C++ engineers with irrational desir... by mahmud on Sunday March 14, 2010 @07:24PM (#1191558)
It says "C API" in their own manual:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/c.html

Or did you mean rethinkdb's mysql API?

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Re:RethinkDB is hiring C/C++ engineers with irrational desir... by leif on Sunday March 14, 2010 @08:11PM (#1191644)
The plugin engine API is C++. They export a C client API, along with many other client APIs.

EDIT: I just reread the above, and should mention that I didn't mean it to be snarky at all. Sorry.

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