I'm off to learn Rust

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 03:59:51PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Susan and I have decided to revive an old idea we were originally going
> to do in Python and implement it in Rust instead - a better IRC
> server.  Susan has years of field experience with IRC servers written
> in C and says they're kludgy and terrible inside. A symptom is that
> they tend to stall out at ridiculously low user counts; this is one
> reason they have to be federated.

As someone who has expierence writing an IRC server, we've been
doing 10K connections with a single threaded server on a single
CPU system 20 years ago. And the bottleneck never was in the IRC
server.


Kurt