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Re:Computer Language Benchmarks Game – Rust vs. Go by laumars on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @06:01AM (#8792411)
I think the former poster meant that scripts are JIT compiled rather than interpreted. But either way, with scripting languages, you redistribute the source code. With AOT compiled languages such as Go and Rust, you redistribute the binary (albeit some will always prefer to compile on the target PC).

That's not to say that I think Go and Rust are the same classification of languages though. I think "scripting vs compiled" is an overly simplistic view. Go compares better against the byte-code AOT compiled languages such as C# and Java. These kind of languages are also seen in some traditionally scripting-dominated markets (eg web development) while still being used as systems languages as well.

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