Comment by cdaringe
6 months ago
Rust v Go.
I was firmly in the Rust only camp, specifically in the business environment. I’m still strongly biased towards it, but I appreciate the nuance and needs for some teams and needs.
Writing this prompted me to check my https://cdaringe.github.io/programming-language-selector/, and it’s clear go’s dev ux scores are relatively underrated
I was also a major Go skeptic and now use it very frequently. It seems bad on paper but it's quite good in practice.
Strong std lib, good out of the box dev ux, great performance. It really is good for just hackin
Same but from a C vs Go perspective. Didn't like GC or bundling dependencies into the final binary. But at the end of the day it's still small compared to most other languages deployment artifacts. Despite being a GC language, GO still puts you in the driver seat for how memory is allocated (ie avoid GC in the first place). And goroutines are really nice to use, without introducing colored functions like most other languages do. To top it all off Go keeps the C tradition that error handling should be a first class part of the algorithm, not something hidden off to the side.
So I'm reaching for Go for pretty much everything now days.