Re:Rob Pike interview
by streetcat1 on Thursday April 30, 2020 @12:14PM
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The fight is not technical but political / business-oriented.
Each language is a much more than its syntax. It is a complete ecosystem with network effects.
Rust can overcome go, if it would provide a lot of open source libraries, as well as growing number of programmers.
To do that, it would need the backing of big tech (e.g. MS), that have a big budget to evangelize it.
In any rate, the choice of language today is completely meaningless, since you can wrap anything in a container, and put a GRPC interface on top of it.
So the choice of lang should be based on the libraries for the task at hand and not on the lang itself.
Each language is a much more than its syntax. It is a complete ecosystem with network effects.
Rust can overcome go, if it would provide a lot of open source libraries, as well as growing number of programmers.
To do that, it would need the backing of big tech (e.g. MS), that have a big budget to evangelize it.
In any rate, the choice of language today is completely meaningless, since you can wrap anything in a container, and put a GRPC interface on top of it.
So the choice of lang should be based on the libraries for the task at hand and not on the lang itself.