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I am surprised Mozilla developers chose to write this project in Go instead of Rust, but do not get me wrong, I like Go, it is my primary programming language a

I am surprised Mozilla developers chose to write this project in Go instead of Rust, but do not get me wrong, I like Go, it is my primary programming language at work, and I always try to advocate for the right tool for the job. I still find it curious, though. I guess it was easier to translate Python to Go than to Rust.

sofixa 6y ago
And a tool like that doesn't get any advantage from Rust - manual memory management would just be a chore with no benefits, and Go's crypto library is pretty good ( no idea about Rust's)
tclancy 6y ago
I’m guessing it’s the deployment story that made them choose Go.