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Rust is a much better designed language which solves real problems Yet remarkably people are solving real problems with Go. Despite all of these dire predictio

by personZ 12y ago

Rust is a much better designed language which solves real problems Yet remarkably people are solving real problems with Go. Despite all of these dire predictions and pontifications on here by so many mortally offended by Go's existence, people are simply making solutions and moving on. I don't believe I've heard of a single significant solution with Rust. I mean, I'm sure one exists somewhere, but it seems that it's caught in the advocacy trap of people talking about how great it is (overwhelmingly in Go discussions, it seems), instead of building solutions with it.

Dewie 12y ago
> I don't believe I've heard of a single significant solution with Rust. Servo is pretty much the motivating application for the Rust language. So you should keep your eye on that if you're interested.
Ygg2 12y ago
I don't know what people keep comparing Rust and Go. It might be that they are both after the coveted replace C++ spot shrug. That said, Rust doesn't have any real applications, because it's not out yet. The core team pretty much states, don't build anything significant in Rust atm. It'll probably be out next year. Also Rust is a much more difficult language to grok, because it forces you to care about borrows.
- steveklabnik 12y ago
  Rust does have two major production deployments (OpenDNS and Skylight) and we've heard rumors of a few more. (Just this the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8743015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8743015 ) That said, yes, before 1.0, you have to be a special kind of person to do such a risky thing. That said, Skylight can't really do it another way.
coldtea 12y ago
>Yet remarkably people are solving real problems with Go. Despite all of these dire predictions and pontifications on here by so many mortally offended by Go's existence, people are simply making solutions and moving on. Also people do that with C, C++, Python, etc etc, so no need to invent Go at all, right?

by personZ 12y ago

Dewie 12y ago

> I don't believe I've heard of a single significant solution with Rust. Servo is pretty much the motivating application for the Rust language. So you should keep your eye on that if you're interested.

Ygg2 12y ago

I don't know what people keep comparing Rust and Go. It might be that they are both after the coveted replace C++ spot shrug. That said, Rust doesn't have any real applications, because it's not out yet. The core team pretty much states, don't build anything significant in Rust atm. It'll probably be out next year. Also Rust is a much more difficult language to grok, because it forces you to care about borrows.

steveklabnik 12y ago
Rust does have two major production deployments (OpenDNS and Skylight) and we've heard rumors of a few more. (Just this the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8743015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8743015 ) That said, yes, before 1.0, you have to be a special kind of person to do such a risky thing. That said, Skylight can't really do it another way.

coldtea 12y ago

>Yet remarkably people are solving real problems with Go. Despite all of these dire predictions and pontifications on here by so many mortally offended by Go's existence, people are simply making solutions and moving on. Also people do that with C, C++, Python, etc etc, so no need to invent Go at all, right?