Ask HN: Should I learn Rust or Go?

Re:Ask HN: Should I learn Rust or Go? by leetrout on Monday July 04, 2022 @09:29AM (#31976814)

Painting with a broad brush... Elixir is like the new ruby where Go is like the new C and Rust is like the new C++.

Elixir shines at concurrency so it will feel more like nodejs and similarly runs on a VM like Node or Java.

Elixir, like Rust, will help with learning functional programming paradigms more than Go.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I learn Rust or Go? by anonymous23801 on Monday July 04, 2022 @09:39AM (#31976909)

I disagree here, Elixir looks similar to Ruby from a syntax perspective. But as soon as you dig into OTP it is a completely new world.

It's true that as a beginner you can simply do web development with Phoenix and that feels similar to Rails (Or Django / Laravel / Spring / whatever web framework ). But OTP requires a different way of approaching problems.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I learn Rust or Go? by throwawaymaths on Monday July 04, 2022 @10:17PM (#31983616)

I think your comparisons are at the superficial "what does syntax look like" level. If you're thinking culturally, roles, what they're expected to be used for, what hires look like:

Elixir is the new Erlang. Ruby is dead (I used to <3 ruby). Go is the new python, zig is the new c, and rust is the new c++.

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