On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 05:39:41 UTC, Nick B wrote:
source:
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/
also
But Go’s “memory footprint”—the amount of computer memory it
demands while running Magic Pocket—was too high for the massive
storage systems the company was trying to build. Dropbox needed a
language that would take up less space in memory, because so much
memory would be filled with all those files streaming onto the
machine. So, in the middle of this two-and-half-year project,
they switched to Rust on the Diskotech machines.
