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Go vs Rust learning (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I'm a beginner in both (heavily leaning towards putting more time into learning Rust though). Could you please elaborate a bit?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ananace and the article they linked are using their dislike of Go to conclude that it’s a bad language*. It is not a bad language. Every language has hidden complexity and foot guns. They don’t like Go. Maybe you won’t like Go. That’s ok. But that doesn’t make Go a bad language. The language designers are very opinionated and you might dislike them and their decisions.

I haven’t used Rust but from what I’ve seen, it’s a lot less readable than Go. And the only thing more important than readability is whether or not the code does what it’s supposed to do. For that reason I doubt I’ll ever use Rust outside of specific circumstances.

*I’m using “a bad language” as shorthand for “a language you shouldn’t use”. Maybe they don’t think it’s bad but amounts to the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And the only thing more important than readability is whether or not the code does what it’s supposed to do.

Isn't that exactly what Rust is supposed to be good at

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

And conversely, something Go is very bad at. For example, os.Chmod silently not doing anything on Windows.

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