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by optionalparens 2786 days ago
Is there a reason this guy keeps posting about Rust, especially on articles about other programming languages (ex: also a recent Elixir post)? Overall across posts, I sometimes agree with this guy, but it's getting really obnoxious that people continue to leave such replies every language post.

I really like Rust and use it for major projects, but I fail to see how it's much on topic. I agree with other comments that it gets compared to Go all the time, often without prompting or relationship to articles. Want to do that, why not write an article or do a separate post? Hijacking the comments and/or shilling Rust is getting old.

I have to say that although I love Rust and somewhat despise Go, if it works for you, use it. Go is good at a lot of things - identify what they are and use it because it solves your problem. If another language does that better, use that instead. If you don't know what those things are, you probably need to spend some time not only reading, but writing actual code in that language.

Don't pick one language to solve all your problems and don't look for problems because you like a language or some specific features of a language. Consider the entire scope of your issues, both technical and non-technical. In that sense, I can see why a lot of people choose Go and it is just as valid as any other language choice.