Rust and microservices
Once Linus Torvalds blesses something, that thing is destined to achieve world domination - exemplified by Linux and Git. Now Rust has received the royal nod - it has been accepted as another language for Linux kernel development. Efforts are underway to rewrite everything in Rust, starting from the ls utility and other everyday command line tools to the whole graphical desktop environment. In this article I discuss similarities and differences between Rust and other mainstream languages. I implement a simple web service in Python, Javascript, C++, C#, Java, and Rust, and race the implementations against each other to compare their performance.