Go Is the New Ruby

Re:Go Is the New Ruby by littlestymaar on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:52AM (#21442141)

The big issue here, is that you assume that you can get the same ultra-light Google search to give you the same answer for Go and Rust. That's a totally unrealistic expectations! If you google “nodejs http”, “PHP http”, “python http” or “Java http” you don't have the answer you're looking for either!

“How to perform an http request in Rust” is a Google query that makes much more sense, and works for all the aforementioned languages.

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Re:Go Is the New Ruby by lacker on Monday November 04, 2019 @12:46PM (#21444153)

I disagree.

Searching for [python http] works fine. Top result is this page:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.client.html

which explains precisely how to send http requests.

Searching for [nodejs http] works fine as well. You get this page:

https://nodejs.org/api/http.html

Which does, in fact, give you a library that can make http requests.

I won't dig into php and java because I'm not familiar enough with those languages to say what a decent way of sending http requests is.

Finally, searching for [how to perform an http request in rust] does not work! It sends you to https://docs.rs/http/0.1.5/http/request/index.html which is the same fundamentally broken library as you get with [rust http].

In conclusion, the Rust documentation is worse than any of Go, Python, or Node.

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Re:Go Is the New Ruby by steveklabnik on Monday November 04, 2019 @12:51PM (#21444232)

The second link for "rust http" for me (and in incognito mode) points to https://github.com/hyperium/hyper, which is exactly what you want.

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