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Rust was initially released July 7, 2010, Go was released around November 10, 2009, so if we are just looking at that they are actually on roughly equal footing
by autotune 4y ago
Rust was initially released July 7, 2010, Go was released around November 10, 2009, so if we are just looking at that they are actually on roughly equal footing. My understanding is Rust and Go are for mostly different purposes though depending on what your goals are as a dev, like Rust is more for systems level programming whereas Go is for developing portable application binaries with a focus on performance.
- leethaxor 4y agoRust was beta for many years and started becoming mainstream only 2-5 years ago. Go was in production almost its entire existence, it's specifically a simplified language.
- autotune 4y agoThanks for the additional background info, I stand corrected.
- woah 4y agoGo has always embraced a philosophy of not being on the leading edge
- autotune 4y agoYeah I guess calling it that was a foot-in-mouth moment.
- teeray 4y agoI think “bleeding edge” is measured more by mind share than by release date. For example, Ruby was already 9 years old when Rails came out in 2004. That was when it became bleeding edge.