Re:Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
by fl0ki on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @10:56AM
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This only gets you so far. In today's software landscape, somebody is going to want to hit a HTTP JSON API to automate something in their second week, and they'll have a really rough time with how async Rust works today. Try explaining to a total beginner why they need Arc<Mutex<T>> and why the payload struct needs to be :Send+Sync+'static.
For all of Go's faults, "just send it over a channel bro" is easy to explain for trivial cases even if it often risks deadlocks and data races. To avoid the worst risks of this kind of code, Rust makes even trivial cases a big exercise. Go has an opportunity here to become more resistant to bugs without becoming less simple, but resistance to bugs doesn't appear to be a priority even for the Go team itself (e.g. even recently https://github.com/golang/go/issues/64474 )
For all of Go's faults, "just send it over a channel bro" is easy to explain for trivial cases even if it often risks deadlocks and data races. To avoid the worst risks of this kind of code, Rust makes even trivial cases a big exercise. Go has an opportunity here to become more resistant to bugs without becoming less simple, but resistance to bugs doesn't appear to be a priority even for the Go team itself (e.g. even recently https://github.com/golang/go/issues/64474 )