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Re:Why use Rust on the back end? by JohnFen on Monday March 20, 2023 @06:08PM (#35239484)
> You have narrowed down your hiring pool to expert Rust developers

I don't think that's really that big of a deal. Any above-average developer should be able to become useful in a new language in a pretty short period of time. They don't have to know the language on day 1, they only have to know how to develop software.

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Re:Why use Rust on the back end? by zeroxfe on Monday March 20, 2023 @06:10PM (#35239510)
That sounds reasonable in theory, but doesn't work out in practice.
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Re:Why use Rust on the back end? by re-thc on Monday March 20, 2023 @06:14PM (#35239553)
In practice we already have our hands full learning the domain unless it's a completely greenfield project. Working out the language and its frameworks makes it exponentially harder when coming into a project.
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Re:Why use Rust on the back end? by JohnFen on Monday March 20, 2023 @06:16PM (#35239575)
I've seen it work in practice plenty of times. It does take a particular sort of dev, though.
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Re:Why use Rust on the back end? by hot_gril on Monday March 20, 2023 @06:18PM (#35239608)
It's not about learning the language itself, it's about learning the tooling and libs associated with it, and that takes time.
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