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Comment by tptacek

1 day ago

I don't understand the framing you have here, of Rust being an asymptote of language capability. It isn't. It's its own set of tradeoffs. In 2025, it would not make much sense to write a browser in Go. But there are a lot of network services it doesn't really make sense to write in Rust: you give up a lot (colored functions, the borrow checker) to avoid GC and goroutines.

Rust is great. One of the stupidest things in modern programming practice is the slapfight between these two language communities.