siscia
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6 years ago Hi Ben,
It is an interesting question.
The module was indeed started in C, and I was using several tools to ensure correctness of the code, lack of memory leaks and so on.
This was working just enough, however when I introduced multithread I started to witness several bugs that crashed the whole application making it unusable, I tried really hard to debug it but without success.
Finally I gave up and I rewrote it in Rust.
Valgrind wasn't needed anymore, the code is automatically formatted and I don't experience anymore multithread bugs.
A life saver.
Granted, I am not an expert in C, but Rust allowed me to write this module with confidence!
In my opinion，the C language is the best choice to write a Reis Module，many other Redis modules are written by C language ，why do you choose Rust? It's just my question, maybe you are good at Rust, it' wonderful too.