On 03/20/2016 02:10 AM, blake7 wrote: > On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 19:14:58 UTC, Dicebot wrote: > >> This is actually very good news. It means there are at least some big >> companies that do measure technical impact of used programming >> languages instead of going with the trend :) And that they are not >> scared to change the decision if it proves inapplicable. >> >> Bad news the new choice is Rust and not D :) Though I can totally see >> why based on mentioned requirements. > > From here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11283758 > > 'Actually, full disclosure, we really just rewrote a couple of > components in Rust. Most of Magic Pocket (the distributed storage > system) is still written in golang.'
Yep, found detailed answer later there: ".. two components currently implemented in Rust are the code that runs on the storage boxes (we call this the OSD - Object Storage Device) and the "volume manager" processes which are the daemons that handle erasure coding for us and bulk data transfers.". Makes sense to me.
