I love this. We are a rust shop and we use clickhouse a fair bit. We’ve been quite impressed with its speed and flexibility. I’m glad to see this kind of direct, real-world feedback around both the benefits and difficulties of mixing rust and C++, which we have also had to do a bit of (albeit in the opposite direction: a smattering of C++ in a sea of rust).
I’m not sure if the poster here is the post author, but it would be great if the author would consider filling out this survey that was recently released asking for feedback on the future of rust’s vision: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/04/04/vision-doc-survey.html
I’d love to see rust become the de facto standard for cross-language portable code by virtue of its ease of use, but as this and our experience highlights, there’s some way to go yet!
Oh one more note, regarding hermetic builds: I have tried to package clickhouse in nix for our dev environment and CI, but its build is pretty complicated, so I resorted to just pulling the precompiled binaries.
Nix, via the standard rust integration or via something like crane, is actually quite nice for building rust/C++ combo projects, so it’d be awesome if the team might consider this as a means of achieving reproducibility. I’d imagine they’d have an easier time of it than I did, given they are more familiar with their own build process.
I’m not sure if the poster here is the post author, but it would be great if the author would consider filling out this survey that was recently released asking for feedback on the future of rust’s vision: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/04/04/vision-doc-survey.html
I’d love to see rust become the de facto standard for cross-language portable code by virtue of its ease of use, but as this and our experience highlights, there’s some way to go yet!