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Re:Four Years of Rust by pimeys on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @04:09PM (#19923217)
We've been rewriting a big Scala code base to Rust now since January and the team is advancing in a nice pace.

Our plan was:

- Take one part of the system to rewrite over JNA

- Run a massive amount of Scala tests against the new code

- When green, take another part

- Meanwhile the other part of the team writes the user-facing code base, connecting it to the new Rust crates

- The test suit works also over an integration layer, so the other team can test their code and the backend with the same test suite

We're quite far already. Originally I was the only person with Rust experience. Now there's five of us.

Re:Four Years of Rust by hopscotch on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:20AM (#19929285)
Why are you migrating from Scala?
Re:Four Years of Rust by pimeys on Thursday May 16, 2019 @05:03PM (#19933192)
The company wants much lower resource usage per node and easy integration with other languages.