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Rust vs Go

• thirsteh 13y ago
  Sounds like you would like Haskell (which Rust was heavily influenced by.)
• torrance 13y ago
  As someone who has written a fair bit of Go code, I also find myself keeping a close eye on Rust. The things that really appeal to me are the possibility of immutable (by default) types, thread-local memory (ie. owned pointers), no null pointers, and generics. These are all basically aspects of the type system that make concurrent programming safer and more predictable.
  • burntsushi 13y ago
    I've also written a fair bit of Go and have recently taken a full dive into Rust [1, 2] and it's been a ton of fun so far. I really love both languages. Their features and goals have a pretty small intersection, but I enjoy both a lot. If you want to take a dive and are willing to put up with a little instability, now wouldn't be a bad time. The 0.10 release appears to be on the horizon and they just released binary installers, which should make tracking tip much easier: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-March/009223.html https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-March/00922... [1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/quickcheck https://github.com/BurntSushi/quickcheck [2] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/rust-csv https://github.com/BurntSushi/rust-csv