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Very nice write up. As a Go programmer, Rust is really interesting. Can't wait until you can build web APIs with it.

• steveklabnik 11y ago
  Crates.io is built this way: Rust serving JSON on the back end, Ember consuming it on the front end.
  • mwcampbell 11y ago
    What kind of database does crates.io use?
    • steveklabnik 11y ago
      Postgres: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io It also stores the index via git and S3...
  • bliti 11y ago
    How mature could this setup be considered? Thanks for pointing it out.
    • steveklabnik 11y ago
      As mature as anything for a language which just hit 1.0. Alex, the main developer, said he likes it a lot. https://m.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2v1fe3/hows_rust_working_out_as_the_backend_for_cratesio/ https://m.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2v1fe3/hows_rust_workin... I think it's a pretty good architecture overall. We'll see how it all shakes out.
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• chachalarue 11y ago
  I've been using typed racket for backends https://www.classes.cs.uchicago.edu/archive/2014/fall/15100-1/guide.html https://www.classes.cs.uchicago.edu/archive/2014/fall/15100-... Recently where I work we switched to Golang for any network facing daemons and it's been awesome. Rust was decided as 'too alpha' to try yet.