Comment by Animats
10 hours ago
> For me the main advantage of Go over Rust is compilation speed.
Interestingly, Rust has quite good failed compilation speed. That's almost good enough. The usual Rust experience is that it's hard to get things to compile, and then they work the first time.
I've never been bothered by long compilation times, it gives me time to think about what the code should actually do.
To other people's usage patterns though, I imagine the group of people who don't do much with the type system rely more on running a built binary to see if it worked, which means they'll pay the full compile/link time cost more often.