I spent six months rewriting everything in Rust

I spent six months rewriting all of the software I depend on in Rust.

[Genuigr]

Great story about how Node was an entrypoint to many topics. I think it is sometimes overlooked that JS as language and Node.js as ecosystem have allowed a lot of pople to learn building systems and advance into more complex domains.

[mharley]

I’ve been interested in learning Rust but I was under the impression it was mostly for low level embedded stuff. Seeing the flexibility and usability of Rust across a wide domain has been a much needed and I’m excited to give it a go!

[maxcellw]

Great work Chris! I love how you shared your entire journey and the decisions you ended up making for the new site! I’ve been an early adopter of Rust Adventure and I’m excited to see how it will continue to evolve over time! Seems like some great bets so far.

[farrel]

6 months latter: I spend six month rewriting everything in zig

[BohdanTrotsenko]

This is awesome.
There's much more inside the video than the title says (or, I imagined seeing the title).
Thanks a lot.

[adrianbergesenfedaque]

as an amateur haskeller, I must say what attracts me of Haskell is not its direct useability but how it forces you to think of the domain problem and break it into its fundamental rules and components (types). I'll keep writing Python and probably pick up Rust soon, but I'll keep using Haskell to prototype stuff just to remind myself of how a good design should look like.

[theagainagain]

This video was the type of ecosystem overview I needed to put rust into context of all the things I do with the JVM, js/ts and python. I try to learn a new language every year or so, and this year it’s rust. Unlike most of the other languages I’ve dabbled in, I’m starting to feel like rust might be a place I could live for a little while. I haven’t felt that way since I started really loving kotlin a few years ago.

[rx]

I was hesitating to pick a programming to adopt a programming language as I am trying to get back to software development and I was stuck and indecisive about Rust, that video help me make up my mind, I will be taking the rest of the year to embrace Rust fully. Thank you

[sighupcmd]

Your bio is so similar to mine :) I started with AS too, but skipped nodejs because I always hated JS. Erlang and clojure are in my collection too, but I did Elm instead of Haskell, and really lerned a lot from it. Now I'm learning Rust (ecosystem mostly), and I hope I won't need to learn another language in near 5+ years, because I want to become a pro in Rust. While I'm learning, I hope wasm Rust tooling for usual HTML/CSS stuff become more mature, though I don't like the idea of keeping logic/state on frontend, some glue is needed anyway.
I waited so long to be able to avoid JS on frontend completely, and last few years I noticed this is possible, and I finally can do frontend tasks and sleep well after deploy :)

[spencerneukam]

Real talk .. how was all this re-written in Rust in 6 months?? That's crazy fast. I'm not sure I could do all of this work in Python that quickly.

[damonmedekmusic]

I think its not just javascript that rust is competing against. Its the frameworks. I think vanilla js vs a decent frameworks is no competition. These frameworks are explosive in productivity and easy to work with in a team. I think rust has real potential in the low level hardware community. But I mean, python was the hot thing 5 years ago and people said the same thing you're saying here. Even the node js package manager is hard to ditch as its incredibly convenient. Personally I'd prefer to see more Rust examples of it replacing audio tools but thats just me.

[neilclay]

I'm right on the verge of diving into the Elixir garden, and learning the tools to work with Phoenix LiveView. Basically because it ticks every box when it comes to some of the projects I'm involved in. I'm really hoping that one of these WASM Rust crates will come along and do the same soon - ideally, this week 😆 Thanks, interesting video.

[vvnoah]

Your website loads very fast and is well designed, great job.

[andydataguy]

Would love to see a video exploring rust for data science and data engineering. Things like Surreal and Fluvio are especially interesting 💜

[hydroxa]

Tbh i would be really interested learning about what open source crates we can use as Rust devs creating web UI, since i feel one of Rust's big strengths is how plentiful, reliable and modern its packaging system is.
I personally am learning Yew (Similar to React) to rewrite my app, using Cargo Features to either run on the web using REST APIs or run locally using Tauri depending on build. However, I haven't seen much of whats available in terms of elements, design aids and other utilities.

I've found Rust a very exciting, refreshing and comfortable language to write in, coming from a C# background. It feels like everything I wanted from C# without much compromise, and even some things i didnt know i wanted!

[AceofSpades]

Your website is extremely performant. Looks great!

[Nezuko-eydu]

Well, I just started going into Rust with no idea what I am doing. You did give me a whole lot of things of what I can do with it. I come from react, java, node side, apart from rust being a low-level programming, this video sure widened the scope for me, thanks :)

[Turalcar]

3:26 I tend to write a lot fewer tests in Rust than I did in other languages. Maybe it's the culture of my workplace but also if it compiles, it works. Tests run in CI and I forgot when was the last time I got an email alert with a failure.

[balen]

Amazing video! 15 minutes passed by easily. One thing I'd like to mention is the possibility that the Rust ecosystem might possibly go down the same track as npm; and the reason being the lack of a strong STD like .NET. We're already seeing rust packages that have 400s of dependencies for small-sized projects, let alone bigger ones. With it comes the risk of exactly what made you leave JS, which I do hope I am wrong about (and willing to get corrected if so).

[mannyistyping]

I am only two minutes in and I am really appreciative of the journey you've shared thus far and I am excited for the rest of the video. I've been very interested in learning Rust and have found a few folks who seem like solid folks that I've followed on Twitter for a bit and it seems to me like it's at a point where maybe Node was in its formative years?

I am curious your thoughts on where Rust is heading and your sense of how it compares to the Node Community formation! I look forward to hearing back!