Would you consider replacing Ruby with Rust instead of Go?

Re:Would you consider replacing Ruby with Rust instead of Go? by pcwalton on Monday November 16, 2015 @07:27PM (#10578358)

> The threading model in Go is very attractive as well, please refer to this article: https://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/

That's a nice overview of CSP. It's not a selling point for Go over Rust. Rust threads are in fact a purer implementation of CSP than Go goroutines are.

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Re:Would you consider replacing Ruby with Rust instead of Go? by davidpelaez on Saturday November 21, 2015 @05:05PM (#10608213)

Go offers thread as channels directly expressed in the language Syntax, not as a semantic construct on top of them. That is of course attractive for it's simplicity, but Rust offer a lower level alternative. I don't have much experience with Rust, but maybe a clever macro could be use to express in a higher level the type of things you'd use go channels for.

Going back to my proposed question, maybe people can prefer golang for this syntactic benefit but I don't think that addresses the larger set of differences that usually separate them.

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Re:Would you consider replacing Ruby with Rust instead of Go? by akacase on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @12:50AM (#10579394)

Didn't know that, thanks.

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