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Re:Announcing Rust 1.2 by baq on Friday August 07, 2015 @05:42PM (#10025181)
comparing go to c is like comparing python to c - those langauges are designed for different purposes. if you're happily delivering web services with go, stay with go, rust probably is not for you. if you OTOH don't want a GC or want to write a dll that you can then call via FFI from go/python/ruby, rust is the way to go, as is C or C++ (pretty much the only other choices available).
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Re:Announcing Rust 1.2 by pekk on Friday August 07, 2015 @08:00PM (#10025735)
Go isn't designed for the same purposes as Python or Ruby, either. It's statically typed and far less expressive.
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Re:Announcing Rust 1.2 by baq on Monday August 10, 2015 @07:50AM (#10033925)
indeed there are critical differences regarding certain details like compilation to executables, compile-time time checking, etc. this doesn't mean the purpose can't be the same. it certainly is for many people (developing web sites).
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