[crabbygrabby]

Go has some appeal in general. It's super easy to stand up webby glue appy things in go, and it has a solid cloud ecosystem, maybe the best cloud ecosystem.

That said, people ragging on rust pushing that trope are basically just making stuff up to hate on it. Anyone who looks into the language and views programming languages as tools and understands these issues gets why someone might use rust.

But yea, it's ironic... Especially seeing how many times I've seen smart colleagues get go concurrency wrong.

[throwaway894345]

I’ve been dabbling with Rust on and off since about 2014, I was actually surprised at how difficult multithreading still is in the language. It’s neat that it stops you from doing things that could be incorrect, but I couldn’t get anything to compile in the first place, even with mutexes guarding the shared memory (it’s been ~6+ months since I last tried and I’ve forgotten the details except that I ended up reverting to a single-threaded implementation).