I've been working quite a bit on my Raft implementation over the last few days and I must say it's been quite a pleasure to work in Rust, which recently released it's 1.0.0-alpha. It takes the work out of needing to serialize and deserialize data, it enforces data safety, and it's type checking is incredible. I'm very quickly able to make a change, build it, fix the errors the compiler catches for me, and build again, then test. So far the only times my tests have failed after a successful bu...
