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A comment on Ask HN: Which language for writing a fast, distributable command-line tool?.

Re:Ask HN: Which language for writing a fast, distributable ... by morpheyesh on Friday July 08, 2016 @03:28AM (#12054050)
Go is definitely a good option. Also try Rust, its a system programming language that is the closest to C. It will be super fast if you don't abuse the functional constructs that the language provides :)
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Re:Ask HN: Which language for writing a fast, distributable ... by lfx on Friday July 08, 2016 @12:38PM (#12056794)
Is it possible to distribute Rust `app` as easy as Go? I mean can you write one code and run on all platforms with zero dependencies?

P.S. I'm not proGo, just have near to zero knowledge about Rust.

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Re:Ask HN: Which language for writing a fast, distributable ... by steveklabnik on Friday July 08, 2016 @11:02AM (#12056003)
If the functional constructs are slow, it's a bug. Iterators often compile to identical assembly as for loops, for example.
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