| I've been thinking to learn Rust for these use cases, but always get frustrated with the complexity. I find Go is a great middle-ground though! And now there starts to be a few more bio-related tools and toolkits out there, including: - https://github.com/vertgenlab/gonomics - https://github.com/biogo/biogo - https://github.com/pbenner/gonetics - https://github.com/shenwei356/bio ... except from there being some really popular bio tools written in Go, like: - https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit I think Go lost a bit of steam in bio after Rust started to take off, but it seems the field is growing to such an extent, and people are also starting to realize Rust isn't the answer to everything. I.e. it is fantastic for fast tools, but for replacing Python for all of the various ad hoc coding in biology ... nah, not so much. That's where I think Go shines. |