Comment by shrimp_emoji
9 months ago
Yes.
C was invented in the '70s and only got standardized 20 years later.
And Rust's ~20 years is young in systems lang terms (the alternatives, C and C++, are 50 and 40 years old).
And nobody had TikTok back then.
> And Rust's ~20 years
huh? It's only been about 9
It was started in 2006 and sponsored by Mozilla from 2009 on.
You’re moving the goalposts though, the question was about Go. Which 3 years ago was nothing like Rust today. Because it’s much more pragmatic “here’s the trade-offs we had to make and why” language. Growing in and out of a cult isn’t a natural part of a language’s evolution like the GP comment suggested.
This is definitely untrue. I was bullied out of the golang community for asking about generics when I first started learning it. Obviously, I don't think my experience is indicative of the entire community, but the experience from the community left a bad taste in my mouth.