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I'm curious as to why you chose to build your services in rust and then one microservice is in golang?

• bsnnkv 4y ago
  Thanks for this question! Back in early 2020, Meilisearch did not have a Rust client library, but it did have a Go client library[1], and there was nothing comparable to lib/pq[1] in the Rust ecosystem which would allow me to create a listener on a table.[3] Go is generally my "fallback language" when something would not be practical to do in Rust; it has a very nice, mature ecosystem, and as long as you aren't condemning yourself to interface{} hell, it remains in my eyes a perfectly capable and reasonably ergonomic alternative for well-defined use cases. [1] https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch-go https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch-go [2] https://github.com/lib/pq https://github.com/lib/pq [3] https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/lib/pq#NewListener https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/lib/pq#NewListener
  • RamblingCTO 4y ago
    Thank you for taking the time to answer, I'm always curious as to the why ;) Sounds like a good decision in that case! Good luck with your project!
    • bsnnkv 4y ago
      Just wanted to share with you that I recently published another article on this component.[1] [1]: https://notado.substack.com/p/how-notado-syncs-data-from-postgresql https://notado.substack.com/p/how-notado-syncs-data-from-pos...