On: Why use Rust on the back end?

[steveklabnik]

Server racks? Not just yet! Soon though. As we get closer, we’ve talked about it more and more, see this recent Oxide and Friends, for example: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1200412

We also have a ton of projects on our GitHub, including the web framework we developed for our API that I’m alluding to above. Of course, that’s not the core product, but you can see what we’ve got going on.

[dsincl12 → steveklabnik]

Would that be dropshot you're referring to?

[steveklabnik → dsincl12]

Dropshot is the framework, omicron is the control plane implementation, which uses dropshot.