Re:Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam
by kem on Saturday April 01, 2017 @06:59PM
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I wish people understood this better.
I'm not a Go programmer, but I have a lot of respect for it.
If you're wondering "why Go"? Think of it as a modern version of C, at a slightly higher level, developed by the same people for slightly higher-level tasks. They made C for low-level stuff, and then picked up with Go for higher-level stuff. It's like C+.
C has been very successful in part because it's so simple in certain respects (although not in others) and I think Go will be successful for many of the same reasons. Go does what it does very well.
I think Rust is actually a great choice for something like Tor, but I wouldn't use Rust for some of the things I'd use Go for.
I'm not a Go programmer, but I have a lot of respect for it.
If you're wondering "why Go"? Think of it as a modern version of C, at a slightly higher level, developed by the same people for slightly higher-level tasks. They made C for low-level stuff, and then picked up with Go for higher-level stuff. It's like C+.
C has been very successful in part because it's so simple in certain respects (although not in others) and I think Go will be successful for many of the same reasons. Go does what it does very well.
I think Rust is actually a great choice for something like Tor, but I wouldn't use Rust for some of the things I'd use Go for.