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While it wasn't released in 2017 , I think rust has a lot of promise. Mozilla used it to vastly improve firefox. Six months ago I would have said golang, but

While it wasn't released in 2017 , I think rust has a lot of promise. Mozilla used it to vastly improve firefox. Six months ago I would have said golang, but IMO Google is subject to constantly increasing scrutiny and their business practices are leading to developers becoming more wary of adopting their technology products. Rust, on the other hand, might be able to capitalize on Firefox quantum's generally positive reception. Fearless concurrency and ownership make rust a great toolset to take advantage of the increasingly parallel workloads of big-data. Also, it is a compiled language so it will avoid the bias against "scripting languages" which is present in certain circles. Personally, I have started toying around with rust and have found the results to be quite positive.

jdc0589 9y ago
how's the learning curve? I've heard it's a bit steep. One thing I appreciated about go was earlier this week I sat down, went through gobyexample.com, and was immediately able to produce a useful program without much stumbling about. In fact, the only stumbling i experienced was figuring out the gopath, vendoring, and dependency management situation.
vorg 9y ago
> golang, but IMO Google [...] business practices are leading to developers becoming more wary of adopting their technology products ...but many other developers learnt some Golang because it was backed by a large IT corp. Never underestimate the lure of CV padding, especially by the many aptitudally-challenged programmers out there.