Comment by bitdeep
18 hours ago
- I’ve seen a lot of debate here comparing Go’s issues (like nil handling or error scoping) to Rust’s strengths.
- As someone who’s worked with C/C++ and Fortran, I think all these languages have their own challenges—Go’s simplicity trades off against Rust’s safety guarantees, for example.
- Could someone share a real-world example where Go’s design caused a production issue that Rust or another language would’ve avoided?
- I’m curious how these trade-offs play out in practice.
Sorry, I don't do Go/Rust coding, still on C/C++/Fotran.
> Go’s design caused a production issue
A simple one, if you create two separate library in Go and try to link with an application, you will have a terrible time.
I've ran into this same issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/65050
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuv9A7CJF54&t=440s
> caused a production issue
that's not a production issue, and it's a very niche use case
It's a niche use case to have software that load plugins and it just so happens those plugins are written in Go? No it's not a niche case. If all programing you do in Go is web servers than sure you won't see this.