I'm off to learn Rust

[Eric S. Raymond]

Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be>:
> 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.

I don't doubt you.  I've never been able to figure out how performance
could be as bad as she described if the software were even halfway
competently written.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>