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Zig vs. Rust at work: the choice we made
At [redacted], we serve hundreds of millions of users. We use C and C++ in some of our core systems which end up servicing some of our most important featur...
For context, when this discussion started: there was about 100 LOC of Zig at that point in the codebase, and a single service in Rust(an edge-distributed API compiled to WASM). I won't go into too much details: I am mostly sharing that because I think that it gives a great insight as to the kinds of considerations that take place in a company where your code must run on a huge variety of targets and that might be ran by 100s of millions of users. All in all, it boiled down to own very passionate individual and his choice will echo for decades and play a small part in the experience of what is most likely to be more than a billion unique users over time.
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