On: Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust

[tomcam]

> I remember making things with Golang… was torture with common hosting solutions)

What made it difficult to deploy Go apps?

[belkarx → tomcam]

I did it around 2 years ago: the web solutions were not very mature and it was poorly supported (but that's my subjective experience)

[aliqot → belkarx]

What solutions were you using?

[belkarx → aliqot]

I was using Heroku, but thinking back it may have been just a factor of inexperience (I don't do web much, not had I used Heroku before and the UX is not great there). I can't actually remember which go framework I used, but I associate negative feelings with the experience (take this entire thing with a grain of salt - I just thought shuttle.rs + the general rust buildsystem seemed so much cleaner than what I recall doing - I struggled a lot with config files and getting the module system to work for me)

[melony → belkarx]

We have come a long way since Heroku. Vercel/Zeit has really raised the bar and expectations for a modern PaaS.

[belkarx → melony]

Noted, thanks, I'll check them out!

[chrisshroba → aliqot]

I’m also curious - could you maybe give an example of something concrete that is (or was) difficult in go but easy with rust?

[Thaxll → belkarx]

What do you mean by web solution? Go ecosystem is mature in that field and it's very easy to deploy.