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Why would Go be a better option than Rust here? Go and Rust are optimized for different types of environments. There are a lot of situations when selecting Go
by loudmax 5y ago
Why would Go be a better option than Rust here?
Go and Rust are optimized for different types of environments. There are a lot of situations when selecting Go over Rust would be a more pragmatic choice. I don't see how coreutils is one of these.
- tyingq 5y agoIt seems like a reasonable opinion to me. Looking at the list of what's in coreutils, I don't see anything where performance would be a huge issue other than perhaps dd, so any performance edge Rust might provide seems moot. And I would guess that Golang would be less code and faster to write/implement. I would feel differently if it were something else, like gawk, for example. Rust would be a better fit there.