Re:Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust
by masklinn on Thursday December 23, 2021 @10:56AM
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> Or is Rust finding a niche in userpace apps even though it was designed for systems level use? I am not saying apps shouldn't be written in Rust, I just don't understand the appeal. What am I missing?
A good type system is appealing regardless of the context.
The ecosystem can also be nice (or known) e.g. serde is amazing when dealing with all sorts of serialisation schemes. The tighter resource control can also be useful for application space, and it was most certainly one of the goals for vaultwarden as complexity aside the heft of the official server was a large part of the motivation (e.g. the ability to run it on a Pi or a small VPS)
An other longer-term option is that I can imagine e.g. coding something in rust then extracting its core or bits and bobs to libraries, and exposing that in C or Python or what have you. Nowhere near as attractive (or easy) with Go.
A good type system is appealing regardless of the context.
The ecosystem can also be nice (or known) e.g. serde is amazing when dealing with all sorts of serialisation schemes. The tighter resource control can also be useful for application space, and it was most certainly one of the goals for vaultwarden as complexity aside the heft of the official server was a large part of the motivation (e.g. the ability to run it on a Pi or a small VPS)
An other longer-term option is that I can imagine e.g. coding something in rust then extracting its core or bits and bobs to libraries, and exposing that in C or Python or what have you. Nowhere near as attractive (or easy) with Go.