<story><title>Why did we choose Rust to develop TiKV?</title><url>https://pingcap.github.io/blog/2017/09/26/whyrust/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eikenberry</author><text>TLDR; the author likes rust and wanted to use it. The article reads like some dev&amp;#x27;s rationalizing what they want to do to the management. These types of things are fine, but as a dev to a dev it is obvious that they just want to use this cool tech. Good for them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why did we choose Rust to develop TiKV?</title><url>https://pingcap.github.io/blog/2017/09/26/whyrust/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t wait until Rust is no longer be perceived as hipster trendy choice.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a very solid language in the no-GC niche and shouldn&amp;#x27;t need a blog post from every project that uses it.&lt;p&gt;Does it have to be 30 years old before it&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; and weird?</text></comment>