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Yeah, iteration speed is a pretty big blocker for adoption in a lot of domains. Go isn’t perfect, but it lets me get things done today. That said, I appreciate
by weberc2 7y ago
Yeah, iteration speed is a pretty big blocker for adoption in a lot of domains. Go isn’t perfect, but it lets me get things done today. That said, I appreciate that Rust exists for safety/performance critical domains, and as Rust matures (e.g., as it’s async story solidifies and consensus emerges around various HTTP libraries, etc), it will be more competitive for general purpose application development. But I suspect there will always be a significant productivity gap.
- _bxg1 7y agoI suspect that once I've better-internalized the borrowing mechanisms I'll be able to move at a reasonable clip in Rust. The build/package management environment is pretty batteries-included and "just works", and the syntax isn't particularly verbose, just strict. Once getting things to compile is no longer a debugging process for me personally, I don't really see any other intrinsic bottlenecks.