We sat down with Paul Masurel (creator of Tantivy and co-founder of Quickwit) to talk about building a search engine in Rust, following the competitive happy-path with Lucene, open-source maintenance, and the lessons learned along the way.

“If I had looked at the lexical search and BM25 space in 2016, I would have said it was solved, and that catching up would be nearly impossible.” This interview with Tantivy creator Paul Masurel looks at how wrong I would have been; discussing challenging solved domains, open-source competition done right, and why long-fermented frustration is an underrated driver. Comments