4 Feb
2022
4 Feb
'22
9:28 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 6:25 PM Adam Thornton <athornton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It feels like the tide has turned from Go to Rust. I
speak Go relatively
fluently but have never used Rust in anger. Do the august personages on
this
list have opinions about Rust? People who generally have tastes consonant
with mine tell me I'd like Rust.
Although a bit outdated, I stand by what I wrote about Go several (six?)
years ago: https://athornton.github.io/go-it-mostly-doesnt-suck
I think Rust brings something new and interesting to language design.
Databases like to have many readers or a single writer for a given piece of
data. Rust takes this idea and makes it part of the language.
It also manages to be largely memory-leak free, without a garbage collector.
And it still allows you to shoot your foot off if you really want to. But
there's a hoop to jump through first, which, I think, is how it should be.