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Would love to see a non JVM kafka alternative. But, I wish people would stop building infrastructure with C/C++ when there are safer alternatives like rust and go.

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Really? Safer? How about writing things in languages that are more mature instead of hoping on the newest bandwagon.

Said the assembly programmer to the C programmer.

Given that Kafka is a message router, what don't you like about Fluentd (Ruby) or Heka (Go)?

Besides the fact that ruby performance is terrible and heka was deprecated and abandoned by Mozilla due to design flaws (https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/heka/2016-May/001059.html)?

I'm not to defend Heka, as I don't use it, but those "design flaws" only concerned development, not operations. If you read the message you quote, you would see that Mozilla is still using it.

And I take it you have measured Fluentd's performance, so you say so from experience, not flail around the typical opinion about language that can safely be attached to Java as well?

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