18, run last July) was Actix Web pulling ahead of the rest of the pack by a respectable margin: Round 18 + FortunesĪn upset during the latest round ( no. Results aren’t perfect, but they give us a rough idea of relative performance. For example, no matter how heavily one of the Ruby implementations is optimized, it’ll never beat PHP, let alone a fast language like C++, Go, or Java – the inherent performance disparity is too great. That said, even if benchmark games don’t tell us everything, they do tell us something. It tends to be less of an issue in the long run as benchmarks mature and all implementations get more optimized, but it’s a good idea to consider all benchmarks with a skeptic’s critical mind. Two languages/frameworks may have similar performance properties, but one of the two has sunk a lot more time into optimizing their benchmark implementation, allowing it to pull disproportionately ahead of its comrade. Many in the web development community will already be familiar with the TechEmpower web framework benchmarks which pit various web frameworks in various languages against each other.īenchmarks like this draw fire because although results are presented definitely, they can occasionally be misleading. The keystones are finally set, ready to bear load. But there’s good reason to be optimistic about the state of Rust coming into 2020 – critical features and APIs have stabilized, substrate libraries are ready and available, tooling is polished to the point of outshining everything else. The language and its ecosystem have seen a lot of change over the last few years and I would have advocated against it in serious projects for its evanescent APIs alone. I’m playing with the usual format to do a medium dive into an active frontier: web technology in Rust. If you’re viewing it on the web, as usual you can opt to receive a few more in the future by subscribing here. Theoretically you signed up for this, and probably did so in the last week or two – but if you’re looking to shore up your mail subscriptions in the new year already, there’s an easy one-click unsubscribe in the footer. You’re reading the first 2020 edition of Nanoglyph, a fledgling newsletter on software, sent weekly. Here’s to hoping that everyone had a good break (or at least a few days off), set or didn’t set resolutions, and is refreshed and ready for what comes next. It’s already been a great reading day for retrospectives on the last ten years / predictions for the next.
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