Building a SQL Compiler in Rust: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Benefits
Fast Development In Rust, Part One 🔗
The text discusses the experience of a team building a SQL compiler, semantic analyzer, and data build system, called SDF, entirely in Rust. Despite initial reservations due to the language's steep learning curve, the team found that Rust's benefits started materializing sooner than expected, making certain tasks easier and more fun. The text focuses on the team's experience with Rust, including overcoming the borrow checker, chasing performance, leveraging parallelism, avoiding synchronization locks, and optimizing the memory allocator. It also highlights the benefits of using a strongly-typed language like Rust for fearless refactors, allowing for faster development cycles and easier adaptation to changing requirements.
- The team's experience with Rust
- Overcoming the borrow checker
- Chasing performance
- Leveraging parallelism
- Avoiding synchronization locks
- Optimizing the memory allocator
- Benefits of using Rust for fearless refactors