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He describes Heka (built by Mozilla) as abandoned. This is true, but we have a re-write in C that is significantly faster and in active development [0]. [0] ht
by _dark_matter_ 10y ago
He describes Heka (built by Mozilla) as abandoned. This is true, but we have a re-write in C that is significantly faster and in active development [0].
[0] https://github.com/mozilla-services/hindsight https://github.com/mozilla-services/hindsight
- sagichmal 10y agoIsn't it irresponsible to be writing infrastructure software like this in C nowadays?
- aleksei 10y agoOn HN: yes. In the real world: no.
- floatboth 10y agoRegardless, it's weird coming from literally the company behind Rust…
- viraptor 10y agoIrresponsible: no. A curious decision: definitely. I mean, there are many other options in the middle. Mixing go and c modules is possible. Unless it was just the case of not having go experience. Without much more info, it's silly to speculate though.
- akavel 10y agoWow! Is it possible you could do some write-up on what was behind switching from Go to C for you? Also, whether you evaluated Rust in the meantime? Or just a short HN reply with a summary? From the readme I assume some performance arguments, but how did you predict that C will be faster, what were the pain points with Go in Heka?