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That's not what the article is saying. It describes a rewrite of a single service from Go to Rust. Reading between the lines, a rather simple piece of code.
by kjksf 6y ago
That's not what the article is saying.
It describes a rewrite of a single service from Go to Rust.
Reading between the lines, a rather simple piece of code.
At no point it implies that Discord rewrote all their Go code in Rust and completely abandoned Go.
- hu3 6y agoTop-voted comment on that post raises some red flags. > Any reason you’re using 3-year-old Go 1.9.2 but you’re okay using Rust nightly?
- aw1621107 6y agoA Reddit comment by a Discord engineer addresses the old Go part [0]: > Another Discord engineer chiming in here. I worked on trying to fix these spikes on the Go service for a couple weeks. We did indeed try moving up the latest Go at the time (1.10) but this had no effect. [0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eyuebc/why_discord_is_switching_from_go_to_rust/fgk56y4/ https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eyuebc/why_dis...