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I think you hit on something that so many miss and it's the tooling for the job, as it were. Go and Rust are fundamentally different tools designed for fundamen

I think you hit on something that so many miss and it's the tooling for the job, as it were. Go and Rust are fundamentally different tools designed for fundamentally different tasks. While it's possible to use them for the same tasks, it's much more difficult. I would HATE writing a full and secure operating system in Go, while writing back end systems in Rust is doable, but at an unnecessarily slower pace than Go.

snazz 6y ago
Agreed. Comparing them does a disservice to both languages—they're tools with separate niches. It's fair to compare their package management strategies or communities, but the languages themselves are too different.
drewmate 6y ago
> I would HATE writing a full and secure operating system in Go For the record, it _can_ be done.[0] [0] https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/122734 https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/122734