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> The lack of a JDBC-like API/SPI hurts many languages included Node and Rust. I always wondered what is a use case for Rust service that talks to a (non-local
by chalcolithic 6y ago
> The lack of a JDBC-like API/SPI hurts many languages included Node and Rust.
I always wondered what is a use case for Rust service that talks to a (non-local)database. First people pay borrow checker tax, get a chance to have an amazingly responsive system in return and then blow it on the round trips to a database. What am I missing?
- steveklabnik 6y agoUsers who use Rust in this way report that these services tend to be extremely robust and have orders of magnitude less resource usage, which in a world of cloud computing translates directly into an improvement on the bottom line.