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-<h1>"Rust or Go?" is not the question</h1>
-<h1>Part 2: (But Rust is definitely the answer)</h1>
-<h1>Part 3: Rust is definitely production ready</h1>
--> part 2 include coworker conversation tidbits draft notes:
-<ul>
- <li>These are two very different languages</li>
- <li>These two languages are solving two very different problems</li>
- <li>
- What attracted me to Rust is the error handling and borrow checker. You
- don't need a runtime and you don't need to worry about a variety of memory
- pitfalls.
- </li>
- <li>
- Rust is not just a systems-level language, and Go is not just a server-side
- language.
- </li>
- <li>Rust isn't *really* about speed or performance. It's about safety.</li>
- <li>Rust is just plainly a more powerful language.</li>
- <li>
- Go is for Python developers who need speed. Rust is for C++ developers who
- need safety.
- </li>
- <li>
- Rust has opt-in concurrent runtimes and opt-in garbage collection. These are
- standard in Go, there's no getting out of them.
- </li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>
- Go has great concurrency. Goroutines are high-performance, parallel green
- threads. Rust's concurrency is provably-correct.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- Why is the immediate question when someone says they wrote something in Go,
- "why not rust?". The inverse is true. When I tell a dev I wrote something in
- Rust, the immediate response is "you should have used Go, it's better." This
- is false.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- What does suck about Rust? The compiler is slow. It will probably always be a
- degree of magnitude slower than another compiler for a similar target.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- It's not Rust vs Go, it's when to use Rust and when to use Go. And the number
- one argument I get for why Go should be used is it's simpler and faster to
- learn and work with. There's the answer! The answer is use whichever one works
- best for you. There's no better or worse, or superiority. Redditors will say
- otherwise.
-</p>
-
-<p>sources</p>
-
-<p>
- Go vs Rust discussions are ridiculous. It should be more like: When to use Go.
- When to use Rust. When to use X… — Inanc Gumus (@inancgumus) September 19,
- 2019
- <a
- href="https://twitter.com/inancgumus/status/1174728131925676032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"
- >source</a
- >
-</p>
-<a
- href="https://insights.dice.com/2020/08/27/rust-in-trouble-after-big-mozilla-layoffs/"
- >Is Rust in Trouble After Big Mozilla Layoffs?</a
->
-<a href="https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-02-08-hello-world/"
- >Hello World! (Rust Foundation)</a
->
-
-<a href="https://killedbygoogle.com/"> Killed by Google</a>
-
-<a href="https://dart.dev/overview">The Dart Programming Language</a>
-
-<a
- href="https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust-a190bbca2b1f?gi=c8caad873419"
- >Discord swapped Go for Rust</a
->
-
-<blockquote>
- Both Microsoft and Amazon have just recently announced and released their new
- officially supported Rust libraries for interacting with Windows and AWS.
- Official first party support for these massive APIs helps make Rust people's
- first choice when deciding what to use for their project.
-</blockquote>
-<a href="https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/05/15/six-years-of-rust.html"
- >Source</a
->
-
-<a href="https://hub.packtpub.com/is-dart-programming-dead-already/"
- >Dart -- apples to oranges? I'm not trying to say that go is going the way of
- dart, I'm trying to say that industry-leading companies aren't always stewards
- of their creations. take FreeBSD. It's a thriving, excellent operating system
- capable of "industry-leading company" usage. See the usuals (Netflix, Sony,
- etc). Look at the FreeBSD foundation. Now look at RedHat and IBM. Again,
- apples to oranges? No, just a bad argument to make in the first place.</a
->
-
-<p>quotables</p>
-
-<blockquote>
- Take a look Go as well. I think you will find Go much faster to program in.
- The other aspect is threading. They have very different threading models. Not
- sure if you had the chance to research that yet or not
-</blockquote>
-<blockquote>
- Yes, a big thing is threading. Unfortunately, Rust uses a similar model as
- Java for threads :(. Go is based on Fibers approach which so much faster for
- temporary, lightweight requests. Go is definitely superior for HTTP REST API
- apps. Rust can be better for a single-thread app or general "systems"
- programming.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>
- Rust is not a "systems programming" language. Systems programming is not a
- genre of languages. It's not like saying Italian is a "Romantic language".
- Systems programming is a specific, targeted programming *application*. It's
- the destination, the use-case that a language is being applied to. Rust is a
- general-purpose programming language. I have used it to write a variety of
- tools, low- and high-level, server-side and client-side, graphical and CLI.
- Yes, I used it for some systems programming. Also used it to make a very
- simple and robust web service digested by a variety of other developers at our
- company.
-</p>
-
-<blockquote>
- The only way is to learn and try both. That's what I did. Most of the info
- from both sides is biased...Go is definitely very fast and [garbage
- collection] is not the issue people make it out to be. I started last month
- porting [a chess] engine to Rust. I recently took a break from it because the
- syntax and borrow checking were getting insane to deal with. Once I learned
- about the threading issues in Rust, I have put it on the shelf for now. Rust
- is still evolving which is good and bad. It needs better IDE and Debugging
- support than current levels. Hopefully that will continue to improve. There
- was a big Mozilla shakeup (Nov 2020) where they let go of the Rust developers
- and cancelled the project. AWS hired them. So honestly, I am not sure which
- direction the language is going in. Meaning, now that AWS owns the braintrust,
- I don't know where they are headed. My guess is that AWS is using Rust for
- some behind the scenes script-like stuff. Not sure. Will be important in the
- next year or two on which direction things end up going. For Rust to benefit
- long-term, it needs the support of a corporate backer
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Rust is absolutely ready for production use.</p>
-<p>
- Anti-Rust zealotry is just as strong as pro-Rust zealotry. The hype goes both
- ways. No, your talking points shouldn't come from Reddit.
-</p>