Choosing Between Rust or Go?

Re:Choosing Between Rust or Go? by pizza234 on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:20PM (#22730652)

There some bad judgment around, due, in my opinion, to a couple of main reasons:

- heavy Go marketing, which (intendedly or not) makes devs think that Go is "great at everything": you can't tweak memory management? that's a feature¹.

- simplified/misguided categorization into old language models: Golang is the new C, Rust is the new C++.

I think with a long enough time, the roles of the two languages will become significantly clearer.

¹: to clarify, that's a feature in some contexts, but not in others (therefore, not appropriate for "everything").

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Re:Choosing Between Rust or Go? by dan_quixote on Monday March 30, 2020 @04:59PM (#22732230)

> I think with a long enough time, the roles of the two languages will become significantly clearer.

I also expect this to be the case. But when I try to think of historical context, I come up blank. Was there this much polarization between languages in the past? I remember similar rumblings between Java and C# like 15-20 years ago, but that had more to do with the corporate backing and licensing IIRC. This feels more like political/tribal arguing.

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