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If you don't need a systems language than for christ's sake don't use or learn one. Go use your go. shoo. Also, you care about syntax, others care about safety

If you don't need a systems language than for christ's sake don't use or learn one. Go use your go. shoo. Also, you care about syntax, others care about safety and correctness. It's not your cup of tea but no need to be all "this is a horrible language" crap. I dare you to have a face to face discussion with anyone on the development team and see if you'll talk so big then.

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- anon1385 13y ago
  >Go is also a systems programming language No it isn't.
- pcwalton 13y ago
  > Go is also a systems programming language so I don't know what you mean. I would like to use Go, yes, and I do when I have a chance. Go is a fully garbage collected language that doesn't offer a lot of support for manual memory management (and that isn't intended to attack Go—it just wasn't one of its goals). Rust is a low-level systems language that allows full control via zero-cost abstractions, but is safe. Achieving that goal requires some new machinery and syntax. Systems programming often entails writing for environments in which you can't use a GC (or even any runtime at all) for performance or other reasons. > Also your point about syntax vs safety and correctness makes no sense, since it implies that those are mutually exclusive so I'm just going to ignore that one. Rust has a unique feature—manual memory management with safety—so it needs syntax for it. It's not just syntax for its own sake—it's what gives the language a niche all its own.
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