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by streetcat1 2246 days ago
The fight is not technical but political / business-oriented.

Each language is a much more than its syntax. It is a complete ecosystem with network effects.

Rust can overcome go, if it would provide a lot of open source libraries, as well as growing number of programmers.

To do that, it would need the backing of big tech (e.g. MS), that have a big budget to evangelize it.

In any rate, the choice of language today is completely meaningless, since you can wrap anything in a container, and put a GRPC interface on top of it.

So the choice of lang should be based on the libraries for the task at hand and not on the lang itself.

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