Re:My Node.js is a bit Rusty
by Karrot_Kream on Friday September 08, 2023 @01:38PM
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There's a lot of other considerations when adding a new language. Questions come up such as:
* How long does it take to ramp up on the new code base (author notwithstanding as a user of Rust outside of the company)?
* If the author of the code is sick and there's a bug, or logic needs to be added, how hard would it be for someone else to do this work?
* What is the build story for the Rust code like? How does it integrate with existing CI?
* How do you store the Rust library? Some artifact store that Node can interact with?
Without more details, unless the company was already writing Rust, this doesn't seem like a reasonable choice at all. Doing some profiling and experimenting with allocation, along with comments as to why you're doing something that's not naive (e.g. appending to a large array) seems much cheaper than doing all this Rust work.
* How long does it take to ramp up on the new code base (author notwithstanding as a user of Rust outside of the company)?
* If the author of the code is sick and there's a bug, or logic needs to be added, how hard would it be for someone else to do this work?
* What is the build story for the Rust code like? How does it integrate with existing CI?
* How do you store the Rust library? Some artifact store that Node can interact with?
Without more details, unless the company was already writing Rust, this doesn't seem like a reasonable choice at all. Doing some profiling and experimenting with allocation, along with comments as to why you're doing something that's not naive (e.g. appending to a large array) seems much cheaper than doing all this Rust work.