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I chose rust after endless annoyances in a 100kloc go program due to piss poor type safety and nil pointer checks, lack of meaningful containers, and working ar

by bfrog 9y ago

I chose rust after endless annoyances in a 100kloc go program due to piss poor type safety and nil pointer checks, lack of meaningful containers, and working around GC when working with C libs. I didn't think I needed any of those things until it was too late. Any project of meaningful size will eventually need everything go avoids.

egeozcan 9y ago
You rewrote a 100K LOC project because you felt the language is lacking! It really must have been a huge battle with the management (or whatever stakeholder there is), I suppose? If you did make your case against others, could you please share how you went about that?
- bfrog 9y ago
  No, I didn't rewrite it. But the next project I worked on I no longer considered Go an option
  - egeozcan 9y ago
    Oh now I see how I've misread that, sorry!
rusht 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what type of project was this? Did you end up rewriting the entire 100K loc in Rust? I ask because Docker and Kubernetes are large projects and as far as I know, using Go hasn't been an issue for them.
- scalatohaskell 9y ago
  it actually has. Try to ask around some former workers of those projects.
  - rusht 9y ago
    Any links?
ovao 9y ago
Can you elaborate on "piss poor"? Are you referring to empty interfaces, or...?