Language choice about HoraeCTL

[jiacai2050]

Hi community,

We plan to introduce a new component(called HoraeCTL) to help developers inspect status of HoraeDB server instance, it can do:

1. Check shard status
2. Check table status
3. Repair a broken table
4. ...

For now, we need to decide which language to use for this component, mainly we have two options:

Go

• Simple to learn, easy to get started, this may be good for newcomers.

Rust

• Unified project technology stack, HoraeDB is mainly a Rust project.

The vote will end at 2024-02-25 UTC.

[tisonkun]

If we keep it in this repo, I'd prefer Rust. Rustup is a good project and I learn a lot form it to be confident that Rust can do this CTL job.

But if we create a new repo for it, Golang is a good choice also since TiUP and gtctl show clear path to achieving it.

Generally, I vote for Rust and keep in the same repo.

[jiacai2050]

It's in the same repo.

[jiacai2050]

Others may concern that using rust will make it hard to integrate with k8s, in fact there is a k8s binding for rust, so it's not a real blocking issue to adopt rust.

• https://github.com/kube-rs/kube

Hosted by CNCF as a Sandbox Project

[tisonkun]

So the conclusion is that we'd implement the CTL in this repo using Rust?

[jiacai2050]

Yes.
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