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I build scrapers with rust, and use servo



Did you use servo in the context of the scaper? In general I'd be happy to hear more about how you use servo, which you could discuss in our zulip: https://servo.zulipchat.com/


I would have thought it overkill to memory manage scrapers by hand. Do you need such succinct memory usage?


Safe memory management without GC is the feature that gets Rust the most headlines, but it's not the only raison d'etre. It also has a great type system, that combined with the focus of the standard library and the library ecosystem makes it a lot easier to avoid bugs and makes refactoring a lot safer and easier. It's also very fast, and scrapers are surprisingly often CPU bound


is there a chance to see it? any links for someone interested?




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