Why Go and Not Rust?

Re:Why Go and Not Rust? by stefano on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:25AM (#20984317)

Swift. Automatic reference counting still requires more developer attention (to break reference cycles) than a GC, but is still easy to get right. Too bad that outside of iOS development it's still unusable.

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Re:Why Go and Not Rust? by skohan on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:06AM (#20984795)

I agree with this assessment. Swift has a lot of the things that make Rust nice to work with, but favors usability over performance while Rust does the reverse.

> Too bad that outside of iOS development it's still unusable.

Sub-optimal for sure, but not unusable. It's being used in production on the server in several instances.

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Re:Why Go and Not Rust? by jamil7 on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:18AM (#20984920)

I have a swift web service running in production, it's definitely not unusable. You're right it's rough around the edges but it's early days.

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