How I Convinced the World's Largest Package Manager to Use Rust, and So Can You!
summary
The talk shows that npm actually runs Rust in production and that claim is backed by a concrete PR (rust-www/pulls/634: add npm to friends page), a small Rust crate used for the follower pattern (changes-stream crate), and adoption of async tooling (Tokio). Numbers and outcomes matter: hundreds of millions of daily downloads, a log parser that initially runs slower than Node.js but exposes correctness wins, deploys that reuse existing git-based workflow, and measurable wins from migrating targeted pieces rather than rewriting everything.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:15LARGEST PACKAGE REGISTRY IN THE WORLD
- 4:20how do i convince my company to use rust?
- 9:52show up with code
- 11:22writing a registry follower in rust
- 16:10you don't have to control someone else's first experience of rust
- 21:55the hard part of programming isn't programming
- 24:58selling something on technical merit is easy
- 25:44be prepared for things to change
- 29:44making rust correct is pretty simple!
- 30:28be prepared for things to stay the same
- 30:41boring code is my favorite code
- 32:30we deploy rust using nearly the exact same process we deploy node
- 32:44have a problem to solve
- 33:45storefile transforms
- 34:14find a problematic part of your product and try rewriting it in rust
- 34:32learning curves are a blessing in disguise
- 37:20go forth and spread rust!
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