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So the article does praise Go, but how is Rust? Does it strike that sweetish spot? Is it a language a startup should use?

• djur 9y ago
  Rust's type system is much closer to Haskell than Go, and even advocates of the language will admit that it can sometimes be very difficult to convince the compiler that your program is valid. Compile speed isn't great either, although it's been improving. I would say that Rust is pretty much on the other end of the scale from the author's supposed "sweet spot".
• solidsnack9000 9y ago
  I wonder if they would praise Java, especially ancient Java. It was a very similar language. Easy concurrency was a big selling point. Generics were a matter of casting to Object. What’s old is new again, though one can hardly imagine cat-v touting the merits of Java.