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Honest question, but I don't seem to understand the base context of what you're saying. If you're a backend dev, you care more about performance than a front en
by mlindner 4y ago
Honest question, but I don't seem to understand the base context of what you're saying. If you're a backend dev, you care more about performance than a front end dev does. That's why backend devs generally write software in something like C or C++ where Rust would play in perfectly. However those languages have security issues and trade that off against performance Why would you say that Rust has no relevance to a back end dev when from my understanding Rust is THE perfect language for backend devs because it maintains the speed of C and C++ but adds security? What is the context that I'm missing?
- steveklabnik 4y ago> That's why backend devs generally write software in something like C or C++ There's tons of web applications that don't write backend logic in C or C++, but in a GC'd, possibly dynamically typed language.
- mlindner 4y agoIs it actually backend if performance doesn't matter? I thought that was one of the key differences between backend and frontend.
- steveklabnik 4y agoI see the split as an architectural one. Not every application has intense performance requirements.
- conceptme 4y agoThis is not my experience most backend uses php, ruby, python typescript, java definitly not c or c++ and most performance is usually gained by optimizing queries, adding indexes avoid doing work and caching. The low level libraries used in these languages do often use c, c++