Congrats on the launch, this must have been an insane amount of work! I noticed the headers had 2024 in them, so indeed quite some time put in.
It seems the main selling point of micron is speed. You’ve done quite a lot of benchmarking. I think to make the case of micron stronger compared STL it would be cool to publish these benchmarks (where the two are comparable).
Given general software quality of the js ecosystem, the proliferation of supply chain attacks was just matter of time. I’m curious how other ecosystems will hold (eg Rust)
Interesting. So one way to interpret current situation is that Github is "trapped" by its open source offering. This will likely have implications soon on what they do or the direction of open source...
I recently saw a submission here that does that, by essentially implementing GC in Rust. It is not beginner material though. https://kyju.org/blog/tokioconf-2026/
Edit: also the simplest way how to do cyclic structures is to heap-allocate via Box and leak memory. Box::leak
This is also mentioned in the linked article.
Very interesting! Im curious, how does this work, it binary patches glibc allocator? AFAIK custom allocators are only in nightly and require generics in the form Vec<T, A>
Mine too! Rust is my favourite language right now.
The complications begin with async. Outside of async it’s a beautiful world.
With async, you tend to get locked down on library ecosystem level, with the dominant approach being work-stealing Tokio runtime, which I disagree with the fundamental design, after doing a lot of research. However, the gravity field of Tokio is strong. To escape it , I had to make a copy of popular crates and dig with LLMs to rewrite them to be free of work-stealing.
We might be interested in the technology (not as a VC), if it shows meaningful improvement (>2x) over what we currently do.
If you could show how it compares with a simple replicable baseline, maybe something like C program that just accepts a connection? Lots of these things are hardware-dependent.
Right now we use monoio and have a draft benchmark with speed. Happy to continue talking over e-mail. Should I write to you?
Hi, nice motivation! I’ve built async runtime driven by clocks on top of monoio. You can drive each thread at different speed, to simulate a distributed system faster than real time. Our motivation is outlined here: https://minfx.ai/reliability.html
It’s not published yet, as it’s a bit wired to our internal systems at the moment. But happy to chat :)
Very cool! I’m exploring adding DICOM support to https://minfx.ai project. The idea is to better support machine learning in medical space and make DICOM viewing in web assembly. Not right now, but in next 2/3 months. What you’ve built looks very impressive! Are you planning to release Linux binaries?
Happy to collaborate!