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Why not a secure runtime on Golang instead? just curious since I saw in another article here today that the author of Deno(also the creator of nodejs) prefers G

Why not a secure runtime on Golang instead? just curious since I saw in another article here today that the author of Deno(also the creator of nodejs) prefers Go for server stuff. Leveraging JS popularity is one reason I can think of.

wakeywakeywakey 8y ago
It seems like they've chosen Rust for the backend. This is a great fit in terms of preventing data races and having a no-GC performance profile.
- skybrian 8y ago
  JavaScript is garbage-collected. They are using Rust to avoid having two garbage collectors.
solidsnack9000 8y ago
There used to be one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17183241 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17183241 https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/276 https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/276 Wasn’t able to find the motivation yet.
- solidsnack9000 8y ago
  the double GC problem is too worrying to invest more into it. https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/276#issuecomment-399323084 https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/276#issuecomment-39932...