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Okay, but in my circles at least - primarily professional fullstack and mobile dev, plus a wide range of hobbyists and aspiring pros - they've competed for the

Okay, but in my circles at least - primarily professional fullstack and mobile dev, plus a wide range of hobbyists and aspiring pros - they've competed for the same mindshare for about as long as they both have existed, and Go seems to have lost out pretty decisively. The most recent SO developer survey seems to bear that out. I don't know what goals Google, as opposed to the Golang team, has for Go. I do know Google has notoriously opaque and complex internal politics, and a long history of summarily axing projects that fail to perform over some set of internal metrics, no matter how large and invested a userbase they happen to have. So I don't think it is unreasonable to consider the question. Sure, the technologies aren't fungible, but it isn't a technological question I'm asking; every longstanding human enterprise necessarily involves politics, and it's the politics I'm wondering about here.

thiht 4y ago
> they've competed for the same mindshare for about as long as they both have existed, and Go seems to have lost out pretty decisively I have no idea what you're talking about. I agree for the mindshare, because I started with Go and thought Rust looked more elegant, but after actually trying it it became pretty clear that they don't compete. I don't know where you're getting that Go somehow "lost", it sounds like bubble reasoning. Again, it didn't "lost" because they don't compete with each other. It's like saying Nadal lost against Messi because Messi is more popular when they're not playing the same sport, it doesn't make sense.
- throwanem 4y ago
  I wish I hadn't included the comparison with Rust. It's totally severable from the conversation I was trying to start, but no one seems to have noticed anything else.