Re:Go vs. Rust: Writing a CLI Tool
by malechimp on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @08:40AM
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>> it’s about high performance computing.
Yes. That's what I said. So, advocating for Rust in a non-high-perf requirement project makes for extra effort/optimization where it is not needed. Speed of dev, correctness, ease of maintenance are needed though. Optimizing for the sexy rather than the needed is a textbook machismo attitude. Good for CV-builders and for ego maybe but it usually hurts the company and the maintainers down the road.
Re:Go vs. Rust: Writing a CLI Tool
by yahyaheee on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @09:52AM
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Yea agree, if your looking at it to just understand what writing a CLI in Rust is like, there are a lot of use cases in which a CLI can benefit from performance, but this isn't one of them and he doesn't call that out.
Yes. That's what I said. So, advocating for Rust in a non-high-perf requirement project makes for extra effort/optimization where it is not needed. Speed of dev, correctness, ease of maintenance are needed though. Optimizing for the sexy rather than the needed is a textbook machismo attitude. Good for CV-builders and for ego maybe but it usually hurts the company and the maintainers down the road.