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Re:Gnirehtet rewritten in Rust by stouset on Sunday September 24, 2017 @03:59PM (#15326238)
You may have missed these three points the author listed, favoring Rust:

  * memory safety without garbage collection,
  * concurrency without data races,
  * abstraction without overhead
Go has garbage collection, doesn’t statically prevent data races, and somewhat infamously allows for only minimal abstraction.
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Re:Gnirehtet rewritten in Rust by lossolo on Sunday September 24, 2017 @04:41PM (#15326399)
You should reread article again:

> But at that time (early May), I was interested in learning Rust, after vaguely hearing what it provided, namely:

And then he listed what you listed in your comment.

As he wrote the main requirement was not to include JRE. This could also be achieved by using Go.

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