WikiLambda, backend for Wikifunctions, rewrites itself from Node.js (!!) to Rust (www.wikifunctions.org)

submitted 1 month ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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The Abstract Wikipedia team is working toward a rewrite of our backend services in a different programming language, likely Rust. Node/JS has served us well, but we have run up against some [WebAssembly System Interface] limits that would be best dealt with by switching to a different ecosystem.

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[-] elrik@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Calculating the digits of pi seems like a poor benchmark for comparing various languages in the context of backend web application performance. Even the GitHub readme points out the benchmark is entirely focused on floating point performance.