Rust

We made a bet early in the winter to rewrite our backend into Axum and Rust.

The bet is paying off now.

No memory leaks, extremely fast cold start times, leverage native crypto libraries + Alloy, sqlx has compile-time checks, AI fixes its own mistakes, and it’s entirely in a binary — no dependencies!

Is there much base knowledge on Axum? Is it now easier to hire Rust developers?

Applied AI, open source developer, databases, data, vibe coding (sic.), remote. 

itinerant businessperson. globalist.

Currently building Mitsukeru.

Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Yeah it’s pretty good through docs and the LLMs.

I would expect any engineer we hire to pick it up without hassle.

OK, personally not used Axum, last time I interviewed people for Rust positions, it was truly an uphill battle. But now the LLMs got so much better, embrace and extend I guess. (though sometimes the problem is some corporates just don't want you to use LLMs - yes they still exist today - "security risk")

Good thing we’re a startup and we make up our own rules.

If you don’t use agentic coding tools, then you will likely fall too far behind too quickly..

I am in 100% agreement with you. Best be nimble