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Programming · by Maya Williams · 2026-10-20

Rust in production: one year later

blog.rust-lang.org

Our team moved a hot path from Go to Rust. Latency dropped, hiring got harder. Anyone else weighing this trade-off?

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Sleepy Comet · 14 likes

Tests would have caught this, just saying

Imogen Clarke · 3 likes

Yeah same here

Olena Shevchenko · 0 likes

Fair point

Gentle Comet · 11 likes

Legacy code is just code that makes money

Elif Yılmaz · 7 likes

Fair point

Quiet Runner · 0 likes

Not sure I agree but ok

Oussama Alaoui · 10 likes

Depends on team size honestly, small teams dont need this

Oliver Smith · 3 likes

I read that twice and still chuckled

Aarav Sharma · 0 likes

Haha my thoughts exactly

Élodie Favre · 6 likes

Reading the source code taught me more than any blog post

Priya Nair · 6 likes

Not sure I agree but ok

Solar Baker · 5 likes

We tried this at work and rolled it back after two months

Aria Thompson · 3 likes

Well said

Hugo Sánchez · 0 likes

lol this made me laugh

Quiet Atlas · 1 likes

Add a comment explaining why, future you will thank you

Midnight Runner · 5 likes

True, learned it the hard way

Tomás Gómez · 0 likes

Simple beats clever every single time

Silver Sparrow · 0 likes

True, learned it the hard way

Brave Panda · 0 likes

Ship it and refactor later, famous last words

Aisha Jacobs · 2 likes

lol this made me laugh

Léa Bernard · 1 likes

Ha, my wallet disagrees