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WikiLambda, backend for Wikifunctions, rewrites itself from Node.js (!!) to Rust (www.wikifunctions.org)

submitted 1 month ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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The Abstract Wikipedia team is working toward a rewrite of our backend services in a different programming language, likely Rust. Node/JS has served us well, but we have run up against some [WebAssembly System Interface] limits that would be best dealt with by switching to a different ecosystem.

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[-] 4z01235@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

since it's JIT, it's actually faster than Python and Java in most cases.

Java is JIT'd too, and Python can be depending on which runtime you deploy.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

True, I didn't structure my sentence correctly.

It gets to compete with Java and Python because it's also JIT is what I meant to say.

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