This year I wanted to learn either rust or go. Go is used more where I work, but I know of more fun oss uses rust.

  • Maya
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    54 years ago

    this is the kind of question that tends to set off holy wars. 😬 anyway, I don’t have insight into the devs’ choices, but I’d say you should try a little of both before digging deep into one.

    • DessalinesMA
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      44 years ago

      Haha I couldn’t help myself. I’ve played with go a little, haven’t used it that much, but I def like rust a bit better, and of course rust’s speed is the reason there’s so much hype to re-write everything in it.

      • Maya
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        34 years ago

        Go’s memory management is the reason to use it and the reason not to use it, so any kind of take around that is totally fair. Idk, I feel like wanting to have something with or without garbage collection is such a stark difference that I don’t fully understand why people get so het up about the comparison.

        There is a decent amount of open source dev. around it in the “cloud tools” world but most of the projects aren’t as fun as the weird Rust stuff people seem to do (Dendrite excepted :) ) Generics are coming, though, and so far the proposals look pretty good. I’m hopeful to see how it develops in the future.

    • @biscuitsofdeathOP
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      14 years ago

      I have some time coming up to learn about go. I really want to learn both, but that burnt me last time when learning Java and c#/c.