Re:Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18
by usrbinbash on Friday February 04, 2022 @09:36AM
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> I'm curious, as a C developer, would you say that you prefer Go over Rust?
Not the guy you asked, but coming from a similar background: Yes, I absolutely would.
Reason: Rust is an amazing language: Amazingly safe, amazingly fast, amazingly complicated. And the last isn't an advantage but a huge showstopper. What do I get from Rust over Go? A bit more performance. Okay, but I also get that from C, so the real question is, what do I get from Rust over C? Memory safety guaranteed by the compiler. Cool. But in exchange, I have to learn a language easily as complex as C++, but completely different from C.
No thank you.
Bottom Line: For me, the advantages of Rust over C do not justify the added complexity, not even close.
Not the guy you asked, but coming from a similar background: Yes, I absolutely would.
Reason: Rust is an amazing language: Amazingly safe, amazingly fast, amazingly complicated. And the last isn't an advantage but a huge showstopper. What do I get from Rust over Go? A bit more performance. Okay, but I also get that from C, so the real question is, what do I get from Rust over C? Memory safety guaranteed by the compiler. Cool. But in exchange, I have to learn a language easily as complex as C++, but completely different from C.
No thank you.
Bottom Line: For me, the advantages of Rust over C do not justify the added complexity, not even close.