Yeah, that's not a good environment for this kind of engineering. You need long term stability for a project like this, slow incremental development with a long term plan, and that's antithetical to VC culture.

On the other hand, Rust code and the culture of writing Rust leads to far more modularity, so maybe some useful stuff will come of it even if the startup fails.

I have been excited to see real work on databases in Rust, there are massive opportunities there.

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saidnooneever 8 hours ago | parent [-]

where do you see these opportunities? i didnt see a lot of issues personally rust would be better at than C in this domain. care to elaborate? (genuinely curious!)

personally i see more benefit in rust for example as ORM and layers that talk to the database. (those are often useful to have in such an ecossystem so you can use the database safe and sanely, like python or so but then u know, fast and secure.)

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koakuma-chan 7 hours ago | parent [-]

You need to be crazy to use an ORM. I personally think that even SQL is redundant. I would like to see a high quality embedded database written in Rust.

	▲	speed_spread 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I vaguely remember a crate doing a RocksDB kind of thing?