Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

Discussing why @rustlang's tiny memory footprint (compared to Node, PHP, Python) is important when developing web services. Cloud CPUs are more expensive than memory. If you've run out of Memory and your CPU is underutilised, you're wasting money.

Note: You're going to be using less CPU with Rust than Node, PHP, Python too so even in the cases where CPU time is more important than memory (eg, burst instances) you're still quids in.

Additional Note: Humans are significanlty more expensive than CPUs. Don't force them to use languages they don't want to use. Node, PHP, Python are all fine, this wasn't a slight against them, just a point of encouragement for anyone thinking of picking @rustlang up.

Not sure I would agree. I think there are some small things that cause more confussion than they should (we say "references" which badly explains the borrowing behaviour, what a string slice / array slice actually is). If you've a good teacher on hand that can be smoothed out.