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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020) by aaomidi on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:06PM (#26228927)
I really am glad Discord did not go with this route. It's a chatting application, which means you're dealing with a TON of user generated content. Unmanaged memory and user generated content is an absolutely terrible idea.
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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020) by ctvo on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:50PM (#26231747)
...?

The article is about a very specific service handling state for if you've seen a message in a channel. It has nothing to do with processing user content.

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