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by bitfield 1393 days ago
"First, it's really important to say that both Go and Rust are absolutely excellent programming languages. They're modern, powerful, widely-adopted, and offer excellent performance. You may have read articles and blog posts aiming to convince you that Go is better than Rust, or vice versa. But that really makes no sense; every programming language represents a set of trade-offs. Each language is optimised for different things, so your choice of language should be determined by what suits you and the problems you want to solve with it.

In this article, I'll try to give a brief overview of where I think Go is the ideal choice, and where I think Rust is a better alternative. I'll also try to give a flavour of the essential nature of both languages (the Tao of Go and Rust, if you like)."

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/golang/rust-vs-go