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Re:GNU Parallel 2018 by hi41 on Saturday August 17, 2019 @07:44PM (#20727166)
Could you please elaborate on why Rust would be better than Go? Doesn’t Go offer good support for parallelism, which would be great use for implementing GNU Parallel.
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Re:GNU Parallel 2018 by mechanical_jane on Sunday August 18, 2019 @05:47AM (#20729259)
Some of the alternatives to GNU Parallel are written in Go: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_alternatives....

Speed wise they are comparable to GNU Parallel. So the argument for Rust could be speed.

The argument against Rust could be backwards compatibility: How would you do the {= perl expr =} thing? Will it run on the current targets (CentOS 3.9 according to https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_design.html#O...)? Will it run on systems for which you as a consultant do not have access to a Rust compiler for?

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