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Re:Why Go and Not Rust? by lostjohnny on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @05:37AM (#21003610)
You are sidetracking the conversation with a troll attitude.

I was replying to

> However, as you start pushing beyond "scale" Go is designed for

Go is designed for Google scale, I don't know anybody pushing beyond Google scale right now.

Anyway, I'm a nice person, you'll find your answer below

Enjoy

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most of those projects are legacy software

did you expect search to be written in a language invented 10 years in the future?

Go is slowly replacing C++ to write the tooling.

C++ is simply not scalable enough for day by day use, Linus knew that 15 years ago.

Even Firefox is replacing it for its engine, it must mean something.

It can be done in C++ doesn't mean it should anymore.

Java is there because it runs in ads systems, you don't replace your core product overnight, just like in some banks you still find Cobol.

Java is the new Cobol.

Fuchsia is written mainly in C and Dart.

You wanna write an Haiku style microkernel?

C++ is fine, it's just a few thousands line of code.

Wanna write millions lines of code in a maintainable way at Google scale?

You don't start the project in C++ today, unless you're a crazy person.

Even ES5 Javascript is more maintainable than C++.

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