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

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

Node.js is really not a bad backend language, since it's JIT, it's actually faster than Python and Java in most cases.

Rust will definitely have the advantage of being a compiled language though.

Source: I write both Java and TS backend code, have done benchmarks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days 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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