Rust

In this article, I share my critical view on the current state of data engineering, dominated by heavyweight platforms like Spark and Databricks, and introduce Sail, an open-source engine built on top of Apache Arrow and DataFusion, written in Rust, that offers a new path: lightweight, efficient, and powerful.

My first impressions of Rust from a functional programming background (Scala and Haskell). A mix of excitement, frustration, and a paradigm shift in thinking.