Full-stack development of a B2B payment infrastructure with Rust - with Florent Bécart

Florent Bécart, CTO of Nikulipe, and Luca Palmieri, Principal Engineering Consultant at Mainmatter, review Nikulipe's journey with #rustlang building payment processing services. 🦀
Florent and Luca discuss the reasons behind adopting Rust, highlighting its benefits, such as lower operational costs, scalability, safety, and maintainability. They also mention the advantages of Rust's borrow checker and its impact on security and cover the use of tools like Yew and WebAssembly for frontend development with Rust.
They conclude with an overview of the challenges faced, including long compile times, workspace management, and issues encountered with Protobuf.
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🦀 TIMESTAMPS 🦀
00:00 - Intro
00:52 - Start of the interview
01:41 - Florent’s presentation
03:15 - Nikulipe’s decision to adopt Rust
05:29 - Managing spiky workloads with Rust
07:00 - Using Rust for frontend development
13:24 - Nikulipe’s challenges working with Rust
22:50 - The future of Rust at Nikulipe
23:56 - Florent’s advice on Rust for decision-makers
26:49 - Conclusion

[@ranit-biswas]

I didn't exactly get what was the issue with protobuf in Rust. I mean it's said in a broader aspect that the way it is Go-native, it's not that Rust-native. What else ? It would be great if you could state a scenario when protobuf is creating an issue in Rust. Just need an example or instance.