digitalmars.D - D mentioned but Rust wins
[snip] Crowling, Turner, and others originally built Magic Pocket using a new programming language from Google called Go. Here too, Dropbox is riding a much larger trend, languages designed specifically for the new world of massively distributed online systems. Apple has one called Swift, Mozilla makes one called Rust, and there’s an independent one called D. All these languages let coders build software quickly that runs quickly—even executed across hundreds or thousands of machines. source: http://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/
May 16 2016
On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 05:39:41 UTC, Nick B wrote:source: http://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/also But Go’s “memory footprint”—the amount of computer memory it demands while running Magic Pocket—was too high for the massive storage systems the company was trying to build. Dropbox needed a language that would take up less space in memory, because so much memory would be filled with all those files streaming onto the machine. So, in the middle of this two-and-half-year project, they switched to Rust on the Diskotech machines.
May 16 2016
Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 05:54:29 UTC, Nick B wrote:On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 05:39:41 UTC, Nick B wrote:Yep, I posted that link in the forum months ago: https://forum.dlang.org/thread/fnubtjzaiatrybvyarjw forum.dlang.orgsource: http://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/also But Go’s “memory footprint”—the amount of computer memory it demands while running Magic Pocket—was too high for the massive storage systems the company was trying to build. Dropbox needed a language that would take up less space in memory, because so much memory would be filled with all those files streaming onto the machine. So, in the middle of this two-and-half-year project, they switched to Rust on the Diskotech machines.
May 16 2016