Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoYeah, this would be my concern as well if I had to run it. Sure Python apps can be fast and most time is spend in IO, not compute, and if you’re running a profitable operation the exact cost of compute might not matter much. However if you’re running a non-profit service and you want it to be as dirt cheap as possible so it can be free for most users, then the cost of compute very much does matter.
rglullis@communick.news 3 weeks ago
If you want it to be “free to most users”, the cost of data storage and IO will completely dominate over the cost of CPU.
There are plenty of good arguments to prefer Rust over python for a distributed application, but “language efficiency” is not one of them.
Anyway, if you are biased in favor of Rust and want a decent argument to justify it, I will let you use ‘It’s easier to compile Rust to WASM and have the application run on the browser, while compiling python in a cross-platform way is a nightmare’, free of charge.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Ease of cross-compiling is really one of my favorite things about Rust. It can run anywhere with little coaxing needed.