Would memory safety greatly benefit the platform? Performance could also see an improvement. I also think the never ending discourse bugs could be reduced with Rust. Will discourse as a modern platform survive without being rewritten in Rust? With the ease and efficiency of Rust development labour shouldn’t be an issue. Thoughts?

Are you volunteering to port it? :sweat_smile:

Jeff wrote a blog article about why Ruby: [image] Why Ruby? I’ve been a Microsoft developer for decades now. I weaned myself on various flavors of home computer Microsoft Basic, and I got my first paid programming gigs in Microsoft FoxPro, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Visual Basic. I have seen the future... Probably written prior to Rust (yes), but will surely provide some justification.

Sure but Microsoft is also going the way of rust. Jeff surely knows by now Rust is superior. It could be done in 12-16 days with some blood sweat and tears. He’s a bit young to retire yet.

I’m pretty sure that it takes at least 12-16 days to upgrade to a new version of Ruby or postgres. There are about 60K lines of Ruby. What would replace Rails?

Microsoft has very deep pockets and resources. One you would need to rewrite core and also all plugins. This would also mean the road map would need to be put on hold. Could it be done sure. But you also need to test and debug. Current customers of discourse would likely have their sites break. Imho if the team were to work on this. It would need to be worked on as a fork with beta testers over a long period of time. Forking plugins for say Discourse2 Meta. So not likely reasonable at this time to divide resources to maintain current ruby & porting.

[image] The Magpie Developer I’ve often thought that software developers were akin to Magpies, birds notorious for stealing shiny items to decorate their complex nests. Like Magpies, software developers are unusually smart and curious creatures, almost by definition. But we are... I bet the process David Megginson outlines sounds awfully familiar: Elite (guru) developers notice too many riff-raff using their current programming language, and start looking for something that will distinguish them better from their mediocre colleagues. Elite developers take their shopping list of current annoyances and look for a new, little-known language that apparently has fewer of them. Elite developers start to drive the development of the new language, contributing code, writing libraries, etc., then evangelize the new language. Sub-elite (senior) developers follow the elite developers to the new language, creating a market for books, training, etc., and also accelerating the development and testing of the language. Sub-elite developers, who have huge influence (elite developers tend to work in isolation on research projects rather than on production development teams), begin pushing for the new language in the workplace. The huge mass of regular developers realize that they have to start buying books and taking courses to learn a new language. Elite developers notice too many riff-raff using their current programming language, and start looking for something that will distinguish them better from their mediocre colleagues. Who cares what technology you use, as long as it works, and both you and your users are happy with it? That’s the beauty of new things: there’s always a new one coming along. Don’t let the pursuit of new, shiny things accidentally become your goal. Avoid becoming a magpie developer. Be selective in your pursuit of the shiny and new, and you may find yourself a better developer for it.

Wow. Hope you were just being humorous.

Could always ask here, they might know :grin: [image] The Rust Programming Language Forum General discussion of The Rust Programming Language

Why hasn't Discourse been rewritten in Rust?

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merefield (Robert) July 15, 2024, 3:15pm 7

Sorry is that a typo, did you mean months?

Can you point to a single project of similar size and scope to Discourse where such a port has been achieved in such a short timeframe?

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