Rust as foundation in a polyglot development environment
summary
TerminusDB replaces a C++ storage layer with a Rust implementation and reports concrete wins: fewer reentrancy and memory-safety crashes, HDT replaced with succinct Rust library, and heavy bulk tasks like CSV loading run 10–20× faster when moved into Rust. Integration uses a C FFI trampoline into existing Prolog code which weakens Rust guarantees at the boundary, but low-cost data parallelism via rayon yields large speedups; borrow-checker learning cost slows adoption.
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