I only know of two FOSS federated alternatives to reddit which is lemmy or kbin.

I think lemmy will scalebmore being written in rust were kbin is written in PHP.

And by scaling I am refering to high user count, high traffic, server resoures, server cost.

  • @trymeoutOP
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    11 year ago

    Will rust be able to scale horizontally in the future?

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      That isn’t so much a question of the language. Horizontal scalability is a property of the system you are building. You need to engineer the communication between the individual nodes, you need to make choices on the CAP tryingle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem) and more.

      So rust is already horizontally scalable, it’s just hard to build horizontally, in any language.

      (Sidenote, there is the language Erlang which seems to do a lot of this under the hood, but I have no experience with it so…)