---
title: "Rust is the best language for data infra"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/rust-is-the-best-language-for-data-infra-gh276piai
source_url: https://www.arroyo.dev/blog/rust-for-data-infra
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2023-10-02T06:54:54.216Z
updated: 2023-12-07T12:02:45.284Z
tags: ["rust"]
reading_time: 12
upvotes: 25
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Rust is the best language for data infra

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 12 min read · 25 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Rust is an excellent choice for building data infrastructure due to its performance, control, safety, and ease of development. It offers excellent performance by default, thanks to zero-cost abstractions and optimizations. Rust's lack of garbage collection and compile-time memory management make it well-suited for stream processing systems. The Rust compiler's pedantic nature ensures code correctness, and the Cargo package manager and ecosystem make it easy to integrate third-party libraries. However, there are challenges such as the learning curve, the roughness of async programming in Rust, and the lack of a stable ABI.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@zackarisl** · 3 upvotes

> excellent choice != the best language.

**@musicdev** · 1 upvotes

> Agree with @zackarisl here, but it should also be noted that Rust is not a very good prototyping language either. If you're prototyping what you think you want data infra to look like, I'd stick with Python until you know what you want to write.
>
> Then switch over to Rust

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