News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video]. Parent comment

Re:Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video] by user5994461 on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @05:29PM (#12972218)
Go has succeeded in its niche (distributed systems). There are real jobs opportunities in Go, in the major tech hubs.

Funny thing is. Everything that is done in Go could be done in Java. Go is succeeding because lots of dev despise Java (related to the entreprisey & the usual culture of java companies).

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video] by donatj on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @09:45PM (#12973808)
As well as the fact that Go runs markedly faster and lighter (memory) than Java, and without needing to worry about JVM versions. We've been slowly migrating services and the statically compiled binaries are truly amazing for ensuring it will run. Not once have I encountered an 'it runs on my machine' situation.
[ Parent | on HN ]