Comment by fpoling

9 hours ago

With Go basic stuff like url parsing or HTTPS support is written in Go and comes with the standard library. With Rust too many necessary things are just wrappers around C and C++ making cross-compilation and reproducible builds much harder to archive.

As for availability if CGO is ok, then calling C or C++ code from Go is not that hard. Also, there is always an option to just start C++ process if extra data copies are OK.

C APIs are much more annoying to wrap in Go than in Rust because of lack of enums (important) and unions (less important).