Technology

Rust

Rust is a memory-safe systems language with zero-cost abstractions and a borrow checker that turns whole categories of production bugs into compile errors. TantraDev uses Rust selectively — for the latency-critical 10% of a system where Node or Python don't fit the budget — and intentionally avoids it where Go would serve the same need with faster team onboarding.

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TECHNOLOGY

Go

Go is a statically-typed, garbage-collected systems language from Google with first-class concurrency primitives (goroutines, channels). TantraDev reaches for Go where p99 latency budgets are tight, the service handles high-fanout I/O, or the binary needs to ship statically-linked to constrained edge runtimes. The language is small enough that a new engineer is productive in a week.

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