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Re:Why Go and Rust are not competitors by ExpiredLink on Thursday July 02, 2015 @08:27AM (#9818364)
Two fringe languages are not competitors. Who would have thought it.
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Re:Why Go and Rust are not competitors by coldtea on Thursday July 02, 2015 @08:35AM (#9818395)
First, being fringe doesn't make you non-competitor automatically. Fringe language can and often DO compete for the same niche.

Second, with support from most major shops, and being deployed even in companies such as Apple, Mozilla, Facebook and more, Go is hardly "fringe" at this moment.

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Re:Why Go and Rust are not competitors by rockdoe on Thursday July 02, 2015 @08:47AM (#9818447)
What's the source for Apple, Mozilla (ok Facebook I'm less surprised) deploying Go?
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Re:Why Go and Rust are not competitors by ifross on Thursday July 02, 2015 @09:11AM (#9818571)
Apple have posts for go jobs: http://www.golangprojects.com/golang-go-job-in-Senior-CDN-De...

There is also some conjecture that someone at Apple is writing a web scraper in Go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8567205

Mozilla have a product called Heka written in Go: https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2013/04/30/introducing-hek...

Facebook have a load of open source libraries written in Go: https://github.com/facebookgo

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Re:Why Go and Rust are not competitors by brianm on Thursday July 02, 2015 @09:08AM (#9818552)
Most prominent Mozilla Go usage is Heka ( https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka ).

I don't know about Apple, but knowing a number of folks in infra and ops there, and their tendencies, I do not doubt it is in use in places.

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