Matthias Endler

Coming back to Rust, with your background, Ruby, Scala, and so on, you have the functional part down, you have the expressiveness down.

That part must have been really easy for you to learn.

Algebraic data types do exist in Scala, and now you come to Rust.

How was that first impression to you?

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Take us back to that time.

What was the tech stack like before you started HorizonDB?

What was the team like, the team dynamics?

I guess most of them would be TypeScript developers, but there might be other people in the team.

Was Rust the only language that you considered for that project?

Which leaves us with Kotlin versus Rust.

Mm-hmm.

There's a lot of ceremony around allocating and deallocating memory in C. Not so much in C++ nowadays, but definitely in C still.

And when you say garbage collectors, yeah, that is also true for both Go and Kotlin or Java to a wider extent.

I remember that in the past, we ran a very large Elasticsearch cluster and those were different times.