Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)
by collyw on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:28PM
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This sounds great but thinking of my system at work, it´s not the language that is the problem. It´s all the moving parts that you need to get to play together nicely before you can even start to develop. Front end, back end, database, nginx proxies, email platforms.
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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)
by steve_adams_86 on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:20PM
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Go has won here for us as well because it forces you to write very dumb code, resulting in exposing the logic of how systems interface in a very dumb but easy to understand way.
It may take some scanning to go through all the dumb code, but you typically won't get fooled by abstractions. Go offers so little in terms of abstractions that you can usually see right through them.
This won't be everyone's experience, but it has been mine very consistently across internal and 3rd party code.